How to use Terminator's Options?

Question

Terminator has one option http://linux.die.net/man/1/terminator

--working-directory=DIR
Set the terminal's working directory

I want to open my Terminator within a specific directory each time and I think this is the option to do that.

But I don't know where to change/add this setting.

Currently every-time I open Terminator after that I need to type cd project_directory_name

I want to open this automatically each time I open new Terminator window or I split in same window

Solution 1

This should work:

cd /path/to/your/directory; bash

Solution 2

You can create a new launcher for Terminator with your custom settings:

cp /usr/share/applications/terminator.desktop /tmp/terminator-cd.desktop
# Replace Exec=terminator with Exec=terminator --working-dir=/path/to/dir
vim /tmp/terminator-cd.desktop
chmod +x /tmp/terminator-cd.desktop
desktop-file-install --dir=~/.local/share/applications /tmp/terminator-cd.desktop

This should add an icon to your launcher. You can manually edit the terminator-cd.desktop file and change the display name or icon to distinguish it easily.

Comments

[Jitendra Vyas]

this is using bash instead Prezto

[Jitendra Vyas]

This is working thanks. I changed ;bash to ;zsh. is it also possible to run different command in different tab? . I have a layout which open 3 tab by default

[TuKsn]

This is also possible look at this great answer superuser.com/a/610048, but to get this work you have to remove the option "Run a custom command instead of my shell" (undo my suggestions which I have described above in my answer) then you can set a command for each tab in the layout settings how terdon described in his answer.