GNOME Terminal

gnome-terminal opens new tab in 'pwd' of process in existing tab

Bug #362880 reported by to be removed
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Terminal
Expired
Medium
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Ubuntu version: up-to-date jaunty.

When I open a new tab in gnome-terminal (using shift-control-t), it attempts to open the new tab int he same working directory as the old one. If I am reading a manpage, the new tab opens up in /usr/share/man. It should open in the same directory as from where I ran man from (say, $HOME), not whatever directory man changes to internally.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gnome-terminal 2.26.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64

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to be removed (liw) wrote :
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Confirmed, terminator (terminal emulator) works fine with the same example.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I've sent this upstream at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579291; Thanks for reporting Lars.

Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: Unknown → New
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elias (elias-uxmcc2) wrote :

The same as others. It used to work fine in previous releases 8.04 8.10

Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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TJ (tj) wrote :

I've modified the title of the bug to more accurately reflect what is going on.

With the first tab running a process that is changing the "present working directory" (PWD) as it goes:

cd ~
pwd
/home/tj
find /usr/share -iname 'openshot*'

Opening a new tab whilst 'find' is still running ends up with a PWD in the /usr/share/ tree:

pwd
/usr/share/anjuta/project/terminal/src

summary: - gnome-terminal opens tabs with wrong working directory when using man
+ gnome-terminal opens new tab in 'pwd' of process in existing tab
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Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3) wrote :

I'm sure this is fixed now

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to be removed (liw) wrote :

Seems to be fixed now in karmic.

Changed in gnome-terminal (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-terminal:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: New → Expired
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