PROMPT_COMMAND no longer restoring path

[matburton]

Hi,

I moved my distro to a replacement work PC (using wsl --export and then wsl --import)

I already had PROMPT_COMMAND setup in the distro, and on my prior PC that meant the working directory was always restored.

However, now, with the same distro, it no longer has any effect. Tabs always start at the default path.

I'm using Windows Terminal version 1.24.11321.0 (sorry I don't know what version I had previously)
Under Settings I have When Terminal starts set to Open windows from a previous session

Even if I run printf "\e]9;9;%s\e\\" "$(wslpath -w "$PWD")" directly and then duplicate a tab the path isn't restored.

What could be wrong?

[matburton]

This was because of "source": "Microsoft.WSL" in the profile in settings.json.

Once removed and replaced with "commandline": "wsl.exe -d Ubuntu" it works again.

[Dustin L. Howett (DHowett)]

This is probably because WSL put --cd ~ in the command line. This overrides our ability to set the starting directory when we duplicate the tab. You can keep source and just remove --cd from the commandline (which annoyingly you can only see in the UI.)