ycwd – helps replace xcwd on Wayland compositors

Given the process ID of a terminal emulator, returns its current working directory. This allows you to quickly open a new terminal in the same directory as the currently focused one.

Example usage:

$ ycwd 323994
/home/blinry/wip/ycwd

Specifically, ycwd returns the deepest child process of the given process that is still attached to a tty. This means that it will work for sub-shells in many scenarios.

Installation

cargo install ycwd

Setup

You will need to find a way to find the correct process ID, how to do that depends on your compositor:

niri

Add a key binding like this:

Mod+Return { spawn "bash" "-c" "kitty --working-directory=$(ycwd $(niri msg --json focused-window | jq .pid))"; }

…your Wayland compositor is missing?

I'd be happy about a pull request!