Request VTE Terminal

[Obarun]

Hi IG, first thank for your good work. I have no idea if this request was answered before or if exist already a solution to do it, but it would be very useful a have a terminal (define in the preferences) which follow the directorie where i am like doing dolphin file manager or geany. For the moment i need to reopen a new terminal (with F4) every time a change my working directories.

thanks for the interest about this.

[IgnorantGuru]

Thanks for your feedback. Are you referring to a built-in VTE terminal, or making an external terminal window (eg Roxterm, xterm, etc) follow the current working dir of SpaceFM?

[Obarun]

@IgnorantGuru "Are you referring to a built-in VTE terminal, or making an external terminal window (eg Roxterm, xterm, etc) follow the current working dir of SpaceFM?"
yes this is exactly what i ask.
VTE terminal is better but external terminal can be good at all. Depend of the needed work for you , i guess

[IgnorantGuru]

I'll leave this open as a request for a VTE terminal in SpaceFM. Also note that you can enter commands in SpaceFM's path bar, and they can be run in a terminal using '+'.

I think most apps that follow the dir in a terminal, such as geany, use the VTE. Any ability to follow the dir in an external terminal would probably have to be a plugin made specifically for that terminal, or for a number of supported terminals, eg using SpaceFM's evt_tab_chdir event. I'm not aware of how or if terminals let you change their working dir but maybe some terminals have dbus support for it.

[IgnorantGuru]

@OmegaPhil Just making you aware in case this interests you (I seem to recall you mentioning it?) There have been a few informal requests for VTE over the years, although I would think people would prefer using their preferred emulator where they have it all set just so, which is why I never added it, just used the path bar instead for brief commands.

[OmegaPhil]

Might have mentioned it as a joke - I have permanent terminal windows open separate from SpaceFM so such a thing doesn't interest me (when I need the same dir I just Cntrl+L, copy and paste etc.

[kaqqao]

The first thing I do after installing SpaceFM is add an entry to the context menu that open a terminal in the current or selected directory in my preferred terminal. Pretty easy to do...

[Obarun]

@kaqqao as you said is very easy to open a terminal in current directory, just press F4 for me work very well. But for a maintainer (compiling, changing name, editing and so one) like me which constantly changing of directories and making stuff in console it will be much easier to have a terminal following the current directory