SUMMARY I need to have two terminal tabs open: one for the project's source dir and one for the build dir. In the source dir I run git commands for rebasing, etc. In the build dir I run `ctest -R testname`. Obviously these need to be run in the correct dir otherwise the commands fail. Currently there is only one Project terminal so I have to remember to `cd ../../elisa/build` and `cd ../../elisa/src` before I run these commands. If I run `ctest` in the source dir then it creates an empty `Testing` folder which is annoying since I don't always remember it's there and then I get confused when trying to change git branch. So it would be nice if I could have two Project terminals open at the same time. Ideally the number of open terminals and their last working directory would be saved so that each time I open the project one of them is at the src dir (already happens in Kate) and the other is at the build dir. I know that there is another Terminal pane, but I like to keep that on the mode where it follows the current document so I can easily run one-off scripts without having to make it a full-on git repo or have to `cd` to the script. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20230922 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 Kernel Version: 6.5.4-1-default (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11
There are 2 ways to do this, I will go with the easy way. Open and focus the terminal and hit `Ctrl + Shift + T`. The second way is to create a `.kateproject` file in your build folder. Kate will create two terminals IIRC, one for source dir and one for the directory where .kateproject lives. See https://github.com/KDE/kate/blob/master/.kateproject as an example and check the documentation of Kate project plugin
> Open and focus the terminal and hit `Ctrl + Shift + T`. Thanks I did not know this. Perhaps this action could be added to the terminal context menu? And all the other actions that are keyboard-only.
> Perhaps this action could be added to the terminal context menu? I did try that long ago, but failed to do it. So as a result this action is a bit hidden..