This is still a problem in Ubuntu 17.10, if your shell doesn't use OSC 7 to inform gnome-terminal about the current working directory.
In theory /etc/profile.d/vte-2.91.sh should set it up automatically, but for some reason that doesn't happen for me. I think that reason is because in Ubuntu gnome-terminal doesn't launch login shells by default, and thus /etc/profile is ignored. I don't know why the commits from 2012 that are supposed to check $PWD do not work any more. Perhaps a newer version removed them, when the OSC 7 was deemed to be the correct solution? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263637 Title: Gnome-terminal follows symbolic links instead of staying in the current directory when opening a new tab Status in GNOME Terminal: Fix Released Status in gnome-terminal package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: gnome-terminal 1) cd /tmp 2) mkdir -p A/AA 3) mkdir B 4) cd B 5) ln -s ../A/AA 6) cd AA The current directory is /tmp/B/AA. Open a new tab, you're now in /tmp/A/AA. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/263637/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
