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Kevin Renskers
Kevin Renskers

Reputation: 5960

Start my Fish shell always from home, rather than the previous location?

I use the Fish shell, using the config from this dotfiles repository: https://github.com/kevinrenskers/dotfiles/tree/main/fish.

The problem is that whenever I open a new tab in my terminal, that it starts off from the previous path, instead of from my user's home folder. How can I change this behavior so that every terminal always opens from ~?

The weird thing is that I've been using these dotfiles for forever and I never had this problem until I formatted my computer and set it up from scratch. No idea why now it behaves like this, but I really don't like it.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 51

Answers (2)

Emac342007
Emac342007

Reputation: 374

The issue is with your terminal emulator from here. I use gnome's default terminal and changed the "Preserve Working Directory" setting in Behaviour >> shell to "Never" and it all worked fine.

Upvotes: 0

Kaiwinta
Kaiwinta

Reputation: 312

The solution is to update your config.fish file

# all your actual command

# Start in home directory
cd ~

By adding the cd ~ at the end of your config file, it'll be excecuted everytime you open a new fish instance as the last command.

You can change the ~ with any path where you want to start from but the ~ is for home.

It's similar to a .bashrc or a .zshrc only the name change

Upvotes: 2

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