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I'm using Thunar 1.8.2 on Debian Testing and the "Open Terminal here" function seems buggy.

I've set up the custom action xfce4-terminal --working-directory=%f with the keyboard shortcut F4.

Oddly enough, right-click in Thunar and "Open Terminal here" always seems to work. That opens the xfce4-terminal with the current working directory.

But with F4 it always opens the terminal with the directory I last used the right-click "Open Terminal here".

So for example, in Thunar I go to /tmp/, right-click, "Open Terminal here", I get a Terminal with /tmp/ as the current working directory. I close the terminal, move to /home/ in Thunar, then press F4 and I get a Terminal with /tmp/ as the current working directory again.

How do I fix this behavior?

edit: This is the current configuration: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Yz6wG.png

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    @GAD3R The command I use works fine. I don't have a full-blown DE like xfce4 so your command results in the following for me: i.imgur.com/rPtWVta.png
    – GarlicCheese
    Jan 12, 2019 at 14:10
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    I don't have any other shortcut mapped for F4 and I don't have a settings manager. As I said I don't use a DE.
    – GarlicCheese
    Jan 12, 2019 at 14:18
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    Remove working-directory and keep only xfce4-terminal
    – ctac_
    Jan 12, 2019 at 15:49
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    @ctac_ oh wow! marvelous! How/why is this the case? Thank you so much! If you want to form an answer, I'll gladly approve it
    – GarlicCheese
    Jan 12, 2019 at 16:41
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    I think it's like a lot of other program. If you don't give a path, it take the current path. You can try with a custom action like ls > dir.txt and you get a file dir.txt in the current directory.If you want to know more about xfce4-terminal, you can ask here:forum.xfce.org/index.php .
    – ctac_
    Jan 12, 2019 at 17:09

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With Thunar v4.16.10 on Debian Sid, I only use x-terminal-emulator with no %[letter] parameter whatsoever, and it works perfectly.

Notes:

  1. The x-terminal-emulator environment variable is set to /usr/bin/terminator on my system, but it works with rxvt-unicode as well (or urxvt), for instance;
  2. On any Debian-based system, use update-alternatives (as root) to set the default terminal emulator you want to use. It should work with most terminal emulators.
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