starred/terminal
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.git synced 2026-02-04 05:35:20 +00:00
Code Issues 19.0k Packages Projects Releases 20 Wiki Activity

Cannot set a starting directory using linux subenv #18292

New Issue
Closed
opened 2026-01-31 06:09:30 +00:00 by claunia · 7 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:30 +00:00
Owner
Copy Link

Originally created by @NouaaTW on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022).

Windows Terminal version

1.14.1962.0

Windows build number

10.0.19044.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

just setting a starting directory doesn't work, it doesnt do anything and i'm still in the home folder

Expected Behavior

i was just expecting it to works

Actual Behavior

it doesn't work

Originally created by @NouaaTW on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022). ### Windows Terminal version 1.14.1962.0 ### Windows build number 10.0.19044.0 ### Other Software _No response_ ### Steps to reproduce just setting a starting directory doesn't work, it doesnt do anything and i'm still in the home folder ### Expected Behavior i was just expecting it to works ### Actual Behavior it doesn't work
claunia added the Issue-BugResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 06:09:30 +00:00
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:31 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022):

it does that with linux subenv

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022): it does that with linux subenv
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:31 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022):

What profile are you using? Could you share your settings.json file/?

(I'm betting this is the ubuntu.exe issue, where ubuntu.exe always ignores startingDirectory)

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022): What profile are you using? Could you share your [settings.json file](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)#where-can-i-find-the-settings-file)/? (I'm betting this is the `ubuntu.exe` issue, where `ubuntu.exe` always ignores `startingDirectory`)
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:31 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022):

What profile are you using? Could you share your settings.json file/?

(I'm betting this is the ubuntu.exe issue, where ubuntu.exe always ignores startingDirectory)

here is the settings.json
https://pastebin.com/i9TfU88R

and yeah, it does that with the ubuntu.exe

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 23, 2022): > What profile are you using? Could you share your [settings.json file](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions-(FAQ)#where-can-i-find-the-settings-file)/? > > (I'm betting this is the `ubuntu.exe` issue, where `ubuntu.exe` always ignores `startingDirectory`) here is the settings.json https://pastebin.com/i9TfU88R and yeah, it does that with the ubuntu.exe
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:31 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022):

i can access to my desktop using cd /mnt/c/Users/nouaa/Desktop, but when i wan't to put in the startingdirectory it says that the path is incorrect

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022): i can access to my desktop using cd /mnt/c/Users/nouaa/Desktop, but when i wan't to put in the startingdirectory it says that the path is incorrect
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:31 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022):

i fixed it by editing the .bashrc file in home/user/ so it works know, but still ugly fix

@NouaaTW commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022): i fixed it by editing the .bashrc file in home/user/ so it works know, but still ugly fix
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022):

Yep, okay, this is #12961. Change the commandline of that profile to wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04 (or whatever wsl -l lists as the name of that distro). ubuntu.exe has a bug in it currently.

I'd take out the changes to .bashrc too, cause like you said, it's pretty ugly 😝

/dup #12961

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022): Yep, okay, this is #12961. Change the `commandline` of that profile to `wsl -d Ubuntu-22.04` (or whatever `wsl -l` lists as the name of that distro). `ubuntu.exe` has a bug in it currently. I'd take out the changes to `.bashrc` too, cause like you said, it's pretty ugly 😝 /dup #12961
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:09:32 +00:00
Author
Owner
Copy Link

@ghost commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Aug 24, 2022): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
Sign in to join this conversation.
No Branch/Tag Specified
Branches Tags
Labels
Clear labels
⛺ Reserved
A11yCO
A11yMAS
A11ySev1
A11ySev2
A11ySev3
A11yTTValidated
A11yUsable
A11yVoiceAccess
A11yWCAG
Area-Accessibility
Area-AtlasEngine
Area-AzureShell
Area-Build
Area-Build
Area-Chat
Area-CmdPal
Area-CodeHealth
Area-Commandline
Area-CookedRead
Area-DefApp
Area-Extensibility
Area-Fonts
Area-GroupPolicy
Area-i18n
Area-Input
Area-Interaction
Area-Interop
Area-Localization
Area-Output
Area-Performance
Area-Portable
Area-Quality
Area-Remoting
Area-Rendering
Area-Schema
Area-Server
Area-Settings
Area-SettingsUI
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-ShellExtension
Area-Suggestions
Area-Suggestions
Area-TerminalConnection
Area-TerminalControl
Area-Theming
Area-UserInterface
Area-VT
Area-Windowing
Area-WPFControl
AutoMerge
Blocking-Ingestion
Culprit-Centennial
Culprit-WinUI
Disability-All
Disability-Blind
Disability-LowVision
Disability-Mobility
External-Blocked-WinUI3
Fixed
Gathering-Data
good first issue
HCL-E+D
HCL-WindowsTerminal
Help Wanted
Impact-Compatibility
Impact-Compliance
Impact-Correctness
Impact-Visual
In-PR
InclusionBacklog
InclusionBacklog-Windows TerminalWin32
InclusionCommitted-202206
Issue-Bug
Issue-Docs
Issue-Feature
Issue-Feature
Issue-Question
Issue-Samples
Issue-Scenario
Issue-Task
Needs-Attention
Needs-Author-Feedback
Needs-Bisect
Needs-Discussion
Needs-Repro
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Tag-Fix
Needs-Triage
No-Recent-Activity
Priority-0
Priority-1
Priority-2
Priority-3
Product-Cmd.exe
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Colortool
Product-Conhost
Product-Conpty
Product-Meta
Product-Powershell
Product-Terminal
Product-WSL
pull-request
Mirrored from GitHub Pull Request
 Resolution-Answered
Resolution-By-Design
Resolution-Duplicate
Resolution-External
Resolution-Fix-Available
Resolution-Fix-Committed
Resolution-No-Repro
Resolution-Won't-Fix
Severity-Blocking
Severity-Crash
Severity-DataLoss
spam
this-will-be-a-breaking-change
Tracking-External
WindowsTerminal_Win32
Work-Item
zAskModeBug
zInbox-Bug
No Label Issue-Bug Resolution-Duplicate
Milestone
No items
No Milestone
Projects
Clear projects
No project
Assignees
Clear assignees
claunia
No Assignees
1 Participants
Notifications
Due Date
No due date set.
Dependencies

No dependencies set.

Reference: starred/terminal#18292
Delete Branch "%!s()"

Deleting a branch is permanent. Although the deleted branch may continue to exist for a short time before it actually gets removed, it CANNOT be undone in most cases. Continue?