[MacOS] window-inherit-working-directory enabled but unexpectedly not working

[WizardOfMenlo]

Hi, I have been using Ghostty for a week now and it has worked like a charm.
Today, the window-inherit-working-directory feature has unexpectedly stopped working.
Expected behaviour: I cd into a directory, press Cmd+D to open a tab, and that tab is in the same directory
Observed behaviour: the tab opens in the ~ directory instead.

Config

font-family = TX02 Nerd Font Mono
#font-family = FiraCode Nerd Font Mono Ret
font-size = 16
theme = GruvboxDarkHard
cursor-style = block
adjust-cell-height = 20%
mouse-hide-while-typing = true
mouse-scroll-multiplier = 2
macos-titlebar-style = hidden
window-height = 30
window-width = 100
window-padding-balance = true
window-save-state = always
window-colorspace = "display-p3"
background = 1C2021
window-inherit-working-directory = true

Version:

Ghostty 1.0.0

Version
  - version: 1.0.0
  - channel: stable
Build Config
  - Zig version: 0.13.0
  - build mode : builtin.OptimizeMode.ReleaseFast
  - app runtime: apprt.Runtime.none
  - font engine: font.main.Backend.coretext
  - renderer   : renderer.Metal
  - libxev     : main.Backend.kqueue

[johnallen3d]

Oh good, I thought I must be the only one with this issue! I've been using Ghostty since release day and have always experienced this issue.

[grEvenX]

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems that in my case the problem was fixed when updating my oh-my-zsh setup (omz update). Though I saw the same problem when I didn't even load oh-my-zsh 🤷‍♂️ Maybe worth giving it a try if you are using it.

[johnallen3d]

hmm I'm using Fish shell. I forced my shell-integration to fish thinking that might help but it hasn't had an impact.

[aryounce]

@WizardOfMenlo and @johnallen3d are either of you using /bin/bash by chance? I've been researching window-inherit-working-directory as it doesn't work for me either and it appears the necessary shell integration is disabled for the built in /bin/bash on macOS.

I'm digging into it a bit more and will follow up.

[johnallen3d]

I use Fish and setting (or not setting) shell-integration = fish seems to have no impact on this feature for me.

[WizardOfMenlo]

@aryounce Hey, no I am using /bin/zsh. However, I added shell-integration = zsh in my config and now it seems to be back to working.

[will-stone]

I have found that cmd+D or cmd+T fails to open current directory if I've got a running Vitest dev process going (might be the same for other running processes? 🤷‍♂️). This is pretty much the only bug I've experienced in Ghostty so kudos to that! 😄

[will-stone]

My setup:

• Ghostty 1.0.1
• macOS 14.5
• Fish 3.7.1
• Tide prompt 6.1.1

[achwo]

For me when pwd contains a ?, the new tab starts in /.
i.e. pwd: ~/test? => new tab: /

I use Ghostty 1.0.1, macOS 15.2, zsh 5.9