Open new terminal in current directory/xcwd alternative

[blinry]

Hi! Discovered niri this week, and I think it's getting me to finally leave i3. Thanks for the awesome work, everyone! 💚

One feature I used all the time on X.Org is opening new terminal in the current working directory of my currently focused terminal, using xcwd. I used it like this:

bindsym Mod4+Return exec kitty --working-directory="`xcwd`"

Has some found (or built) a Wayland version of xcwd? The way it works is to find the deepest child of the currently focused window, and look up its working directory. I guess one could cobble something together using niri msg?

[YaLTeR]

Hey, I think you can script this. niri msg --json focused-window | jq .pid) gives you the PID of the focused window, but then you need to find the deepest child process and get its cwd.

[blinry]

Decided to write my own little tool for this, which I called ycwd :) It allows you to write a key binding like this:

Mod+Return { spawn "bash" "-c" "kitty --working-directory=$(ycwd $(niri msg --json focused-window | jq .pid))"; }

It could be neat to even include the logic for how to find the focused window for different compositors?

Thanks for the pointer to niri msg, @YaLTeR!

[masroof-maindak]

This exists out of the box in Foot, just place the following in your .bashrc.

osc7_cwd() {
	# Ctrl + Shift + N opens new terminal at PWD
	local strlen=${#PWD}
	local encoded=""
	local pos c o
	for ((pos = 0; pos < strlen; pos++)); do
		c=${PWD:$pos:1}
		case "$c" in
		[-/:_.!\'\(\)~[:alnum:]]) o="${c}" ;;
		*) printf -v o '%%%02X' "'${c}" ;;
		esac
		encoded+="${o}"
	done
	printf '\e]7;file://%s%s\e\\' "${HOSTNAME}" "${encoded}"
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=${PROMPT_COMMAND:+${PROMPT_COMMAND%;}; }osc7_cwd