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I am trying to set it up so in Thunar when I use open Directory Here, xterm is the terminal emulator used.

I have tried 2 things:

xterm -hold -e "cd '{pwd}'"

and

xterm -hold -e "cd %f"

the %f coming from the help box on the page:

%f - the path to the first selected file

I either need to find a way to escape the %f so it is not interpreted literally("cd \%f" did not work) or have pwd execute in the first option.

I've also tried the following none of which worked:

xterm -hold -e "cd (pwd)" term -hold -e "cd $(pwd)"

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  • What is your desktop environment? Xfce? If so, is it OK to set xterm as your preferred (default) terminal emulator? Commented Jan 28, 2017 at 7:18

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You should change directory before launching xterm. Something like:

cd "%f" && xterm -hold
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    Awesome, removing the quotes around "%f" worked. Thanks for the answer. Commented Jan 28, 2017 at 18:11

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