Bug 268322

Summary:	Konsole current working directory when opening new tabs or windows is /usr/share/man if reading a man page in previous window
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	dennis.aldana
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	minor	CC:	franke.daniel
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description dennis.aldana 2011-03-12 22:44:37 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

While reading a man page in a Konsole window, if a new tab or window is opened through  any means, current working directory is /usr/share/man

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open Konsole
Type: "man cat" (or man anything)
Go to File > New Window (or new Tab, or double click the tab bar, or even left click and "open file manager")


Actual Results:  
Current working directory is /usr/share/man

Expected Results:  
Current working directory should be the directory been browsed in Konsole before reading the man page, or at least home directory if that is not known. 

OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37-ARCH
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2011-03-19 16:01:17 UTC

Konsole get the current working directory from the current session to copy to the new session.  'man' sets the cwd to /usr/share/man

Example:

4774 pts/6    S+     0:00 man man

/proc/4774/cwd -> /usr/share/man/

Comment 2 dennis.aldana 2011-03-19 23:52:41 UTC

yeah, it may be the normal behavior, it certainly is not what I was specting so I thought in reporting, but it's so trivial you may close this bug at your discretion. I think man shouldn't change cwd thou. 

(In reply to comment #1)
> Konsole get the current working directory from the current session to copy to
> the new session.  'man' sets the cwd to /usr/share/man
> 
> Example:
> 
> 4774 pts/6    S+     0:00 man man
> 
> /proc/4774/cwd -> /usr/share/man/

Comment 3 Kurt Hindenburg 2011-03-20 16:51:07 UTC

I agree man should not be setting the cwd.

Anyway I don't see how Konsole could get around this as-is.

Comment 4 Daniel Franke 2011-04-13 11:34:11 UTC

*** Bug 270620 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Daniel Franke 2011-04-13 11:37:09 UTC

See the dupe for in #4 another example, 'find' in that case.

Personally I don't think this is an issue in any application that changes the current working directory -- have fun trying to weed them all out -- but something that should be fixed in konsole instead.