External programs, custom terminal

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In the preferences, external programmes, I am trying to call a specific terminal.
With /usr/bin/ptyxis cd %DIR% I open the terminal, but not the location of the library.

What is the call to open the shell/terminal at the dir?

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With KDE Konsole, konsole --workdir=%DIR opens to the correct directory. I had to work out the right command and remove the additional % from %DIR%.

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thanks a lot!

ok, in my case I use
/usr/bin/gnome-terminal --working-directory='%DIR'

and the ‘’ is important to generate a valid path (including blanks). At least, this should work; for jabref resolves this line into a string that I can copy and paste into a gnome-terminal and there the command works effectively.

man gnome-terminal pointed me to --working-directory.

However, called via JabRef, the command does not open any window on my fedora linux, maybe a wayland issue?

I am on JabRef 6.0-alpha.43–2025-01-20–4aa313d
Linux 6.12.12-200.fc41.x86_64 amd64
Java 23.0.1
JavaFX 23.0.1+4

Ok, here is a github issue.