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mustbeit

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Thunar action open Terminal window under KDE(wayland)

Hi,

In Thunar(4.20.9) custom action you have Terminal which opens a Terminal window which path is the select folder.

A. This works perfect under Manjaro XFCE; the cmd in Thunar being:

exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator

B. Now, I wish the same behaviour of Thunar under Manjaro KDE(latest), aka Wayland, plasma 6.7.3
TerminalEmulator being unreconized I tried:

exo-open --working-directory %f --launch konsole
exo-open --working-directory %f --launch /usr/bin/konsole

These FAIL to execute

Now if I try any of the following as custom cmd for Thunar :

/usr/bin/konsole %f
/usr/bin/konsole %d
/usr/bin/konsole %n

it opens a terminal window(KDE konsole), but which path is the PARENT folder of the selected folder.
In other words, if you have the path:

myPath/selectedDir

and in Thunar you right-click on the folder "selectedDir" to action "Terminal", it opens a terminal which path is "myPath" and not as expected and as under XFCE: "myPath/selectedDir"

Question
* what's the correct cmd for Thunar under KDE, if not
* is it a Thunar bug under KDE wayland, if not
* is it a KDE bug

Thanks

Last edited by mustbeit (2026-07-29 11:27:47)

daffyduck

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Re: Thunar action open Terminal window under KDE(wayland)

Now if I try any of the following as custom cmd for Thunar :

/usr/bin/konsole %f
/usr/bin/konsole %d
/usr/bin/konsole %n

it opens a terminal window(KDE konsole), but which path is the PARENT folder of the selected folder.

That's the right way to do it. Which folder "konsole" opens depends on the specification of "konsole". You should read the command-line format with "man konsole"

My guess (since I don't use konsole):
try with:

/usr/bin/konsole %d/.

Added later 20 min 16 s:
Also, here is a way to debug it, if you have xfce4-terminal installed,
as custom cmd for Thunar:

xfce4-terminal --hold  --title=%d   --execute   bash -c  -- echo  "See the title of this window"

or

xfce4-terminal  --hold  --execute   bash -c  -- echo  "expanded to: "%d

Last edited by daffyduck (2026-07-29 16:50:04)

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gogogadget

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Re: Thunar action open Terminal window under KDE(wayland)

Hello,

B. Now, I wish the same behaviour of Thunar under Manjaro KDE(latest), aka Wayland, plasma 6.7.3
TerminalEmulator being unreconized I tried:

    exo-open --working-directory %f --launch konsole
    exo-open --working-directory %f --launch /usr/bin/konsole

These FAIL to execute

exo-open is made for the Xfce environment, I doubt it works in another desktop.

Ghostty is my terminal emulator and my custom action for opening the selected folder in a terminal is like this :

ghostty --working-directory=%F

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mustbeit

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Re: Thunar action open Terminal window under KDE(wayland)

exo-open is made for the Xfce environment, I doubt it works in another desktop.

Fair enough

ghostty --working-directory=%F

/usr/bin/konsole --help
....
--workdir <dir>            Set the initial working directory of the new tab
                             or window to 'dir'
....

Working synthax is:

/usr/bin/konsole --workdir=%f

Thanks

Last edited by mustbeit (2026-07-29 22:29:47)

daffyduck

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Re: Thunar action open Terminal window under KDE(wayland)

This one works on my computer:

xfce4-terminal    --working-directory=%f

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