Easy way to duplicate tab and preserving current working directory #10772

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opened 2026-01-31 02:29:57 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @MartyIX on GitHub (Sep 25, 2020).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Feature:

  • I open Terminal.
  • I work a bit and I often need to open the same tab again with the same working directory.

Typically I need this to do some minor task and I don't want to navigate away from my opened tab just to return back again. This is easy with Ubuntu terminal where I just press CTRL+SHIFT+T to duplicate the tab as specified earilier.

Notes:

  • I'm not sure there is a way to do that with Terminal now. Please let me know if Terminal can already do it.
  • I'm not sure whether other people work in similar fashion so I'm not sure how large the target audience would be.
  • I find this behavior useful for all sorts of tabs (Windows PowerShell tab, any WSL tab, etc.).

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Unfortunately not.

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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 02:29:57 +00:00
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@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Sep 25, 2020):

There's #3158 for this particular issue and I've filed #7668 which is a working proposal. You'll find a lots of useful info in those two threads. Unfortunately due to various technical issues I don't think this feature can be shipped very soon. Sorry about that 😓 .

@skyline75489 commented on GitHub (Sep 25, 2020): There's #3158 for this particular issue and I've filed #7668 which is a working proposal. You'll find a lots of useful info in those two threads. Unfortunately due to various technical issues I don't think this feature can be shipped very soon. Sorry about that 😓 .
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@MartyIX commented on GitHub (Sep 25, 2020):

Thank you! I'll subscribe the issue. Would love that feature :-)

@MartyIX commented on GitHub (Sep 25, 2020): Thank you! I'll subscribe the issue. Would love that feature :-)
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Reference: starred/terminal#10772