Terminator: how to Prevent new terminal from being opened in the same directory?

[ranjith19]

I have installed the following on Ubuntu 20.10

- zsh
- Oh my zsh
- terminator

When I open a new tab or split window in the terminator, I find that the current working directory is copied from the previous session. I want to instead be in the home directory whenever I open a new terminal.

This is what is happening for example

- I have an open terminal in directory /home/user/folder1
- I open a new terminal
- New terminal is in /home/user/folder1
- How can I prevent this from happening?

Currently I have added this line in .zshrc

cd $HOME

But I do not really like this solution as it prevents me from using open in terminal from context menu from nautilus.

Please help me figure out how I can always open a new terminal to go to home dir.

PS: clone of my unanswered question https://askubuntu.com/questions/1310...same-directory

[ranjith19]

I did the following and solved my problem within terminator

- Go to preferences -> profiles [default] -> Command
- Check Run a custom command instead of my shell
- Set the custom command as cd /home/mydir; exec /usr/bin/zsh


Now a new terminal opens in the home dir instead of the current working directory of the previous terminal

[ranjith19]

I did the following and solved my problem within terminator

- Go to preferences -> profiles [default] -> Command
- Check Run a custom command instead of my shell
- Set the custom command as cd /home/mydir; exec /usr/bin/zsh


Now a new terminal opens in the home dir instead of the current working directory of the previous terminal