Can't use Windows Terminal's Starting Directory

[vaqxai]

Can't use Windows Terminal's Starting Directory

[faho]

You'll want to check your config for anything that does cd, possibly just in a login shell.

If that's not it you should ask the Cygwin people, seeing as you appear to use cygwin. Note that it's also possible it cds in Cygwin somewhere, e.g. if that has a different login shell that ends up starting fish.

There is nothing special fish does to support a different startup directory, it just asks the operating system via getcwd(), so the parent process should just change to that directory. So there's nothing really to go wrong here in fish itself.

[vaqxai]

I don't have any cds in config. Is there any way to diagnose what actually happens? perhaps cwd is messed up because of cygwin, as fish can't read a windows-format path...

[faho]

Ask the cygwin people, who know about cygwin.

I'm afraid we can't be of more assistance because it's a pretty unusual system and I have no idea how it really fits together. I am fairly certain that it isn't a fish issue.

[vaqxai]

It was, I had another hidden config file which overrode the $PWD. No idea how it got there, but totally my fault. Sorry for taking your time with this.