Windows Terminal: Open New WSL Tab In Linux Home Folder
Notes
| 2021-08-30
(updated 2025-10-25)
| 1 min read
#windows
#windows-terminal
#wsl
The path you are in when opening a new WSL tab is determined by startingDirectory.
This parameter needs to be a valid Windows path, which isn’t great if we want to end up in /home/kamner inside WSL.
The nice thing about WSL is that it will resolve windows paths into their equivalent WSL/linux path if possible.
For example, C:\Scripts would resolve to /mnt/c/Scripts.
Using this and the neat trick that the WSL filesystem is exposed as a a hidden fileshare ([[technology/windows/wsl-hidden-fileshare]]) we can get to where we want.