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I'm running gnome 3.10.1 on Arch with Zsh. I'm facing that problem that when I create a new tab or window from a terminal window, it resets the current dir to my home dir.

I've already tried this: gnome-terminal: keep track of directory in new tab, but it didn't work.

I tought that maybe it could be some configuration on my .zshrc file, so, I cleaned it up and put just the following line:

. /etc/profile.d/vte.sh

However, it didn't work as expected.

Yes, this file exists and here is its contents:

# Copyright © 2006 Shaun McCance <shaunm@gnome.org>
# Copyright © 2013 Peter De Wachter <pdewacht@gmail.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
# General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

# Not bash or zsh?
[ -n "$BASH_VERSION" -o -n "$ZSH_VERSION" ] || return 0

# Not an interactive shell?
[[ $- == *i* ]] || return 0

# Not running under vte?
[ "${VTE_VERSION:-0}" -ge 3405 ] || return 0

__vte_urlencode() (
  # This is important to make sure string manipulation is handled
  # byte-by-byte.
  LC_ALL=C
  str="$1"
  while [ -n "$str" ]; do
    safe="${str%%[!a-zA-Z0-9/:_\.\-\!\'\(\)~]*}"
    printf "%s" "$safe"
    str="${str#"$safe"}"
    if [ -n "$str" ]; then
      printf "%%%02X" "'$str"
      str="${str#?}"
    fi
  done
)

# Print a warning so that anyone who's added this manually to his PS1 can adapt.
# The function will be removed in a later version.
__vte_ps1() {
  echo -n "(__vte_ps1 is obsolete)"
}

__vte_osc7 () {
  printf "\033]7;file://%s%s\a" "${HOSTNAME:-}" "$(__vte_urlencode "${PWD}")"
}

__vte_prompt_command() {
  printf "\033]0;%s@%s:%s\007%s" "${USER}" "${HOSTNAME%%.*}" "${PWD/#$HOME/~}" "$(__vte_osc7)"
}

case "$TERM" in
  xterm*|vte*)
    [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ] && PROMPT_COMMAND="__vte_prompt_command" 
    [ -n "$ZSH_VERSION"  ] && chpwd_functions+=(__vte_osc7)
    ;;
esac

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This is really bugging me...

Is there any solution?

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Henrique Barcelos
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I don't know if you're still running into this issue, but I found my problem was I was running /bin/zsh as a custom command in my terminal profile. Disabling that fixed the issue for me - and still kept zsh as my primary shell.

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  • Exactly solved the problem for me using Fedora, thanks a lot! – Sven Hager Apr 23 '16 at 14:46
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    changing that would mean using the default bash instead of zsh. so how does that fix the issue? – Alfie May 14 '16 at 23:10
  • @Alfie The user is not using their default shell (probably bash). That means that the command that is executed to set the prompt (set up at login in /etc/profile.d/vte.sh) is not the right one and the terminal is not aware of the shell's current directory. – xhienne Aug 13 '17 at 13:06
  • The screenshot is not up to date anymore. The second option does not exist anymore; ticking the first one did the trick. It's the default, but you have to set ZSH as your default shell with chsh, I presume. – slhck Dec 31 '18 at 09:24
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It seems like you have to enable the "Run command as a login shell" option in order to make it work like it should.

The print bellow is in Portuguese, but this is the configuration I've got it to work.

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