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I love XTerm but I would like to enable tabbing (multiple terminals in one window separated by tabs).

The terminal Sakura is based on XTerm and tabbing is enabled.

I can open XTerm in my home directory by executing xterm -e 'cd ~/ && /bin/bash'. However, this doesn't work with Sakura (I replaced xterm by sakura). I also tried sakura -e 'cd ~/' but it doesn't work either.

How can I open a shell in Sakura in my home directory?

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Doesn't it have a man page you can refer to? – Henning Makholm Aug 29 '11 at 13:52
The man page is not helpful. It merely states that the flag -e executes a command. – Crowhill Aug 29 '11 at 14:48

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Sakura is most certainly not based on xterm. It is in fact yet another VTE terminal. The source claims that the -e option is compatible, but clearly is not (xterm uses a shell, for one thing. Also, it doesn't appear to do the "all arguments" nonsense that sakura's source claims it does and emulates with its -e option).

From looking at the source for how it deals with command line arguments, try this:

sakura -x 'sh -c "cd ~; exec /bin/bash"'
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Thanks so much for answering my question. I tried your suggestion and it leads to progress. The Sakura terminal I get opens no longer as a blank window but in the root directory. How do go to the home directory? – Crowhill Aug 31 '11 at 0:40

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