On WSL2 Ubuntu STS-4.19.0.RELEASE with Terminal SSH Connector Version: 11.2.0.202303140100 'show in Terminal' opens terminal in user home directory

[ksanjeev9211]

Environment: Ubuntu 22.04.01 LTS on wsl2
Spring Tool Suite version: 4.19
Terminal SSH Connector Version: 11.2.0.202303140100

Steps to reproduce:

create or import any java/non-java project
rt click the project-> show in terminal
the above opens the terminal in the user's home directory and not in the project's directory.

I have recently started using STS on linux environment and am not sure if it is the correct behavior.
On Windows it opens the terminal in the project's directory though.

[jonahgraham]

This sounds like wsl process is not respecting the incoming working directory. AFAICT wsl.exe needs a special command line argument that you can pass the current directory to. It seems --cd <PATH> is an undocumented command line option.

It isn't trivial to add this into how Eclipse is currently implemented, but it should be possible to add some special handling to pass the directory to a command line option.

The code needed would to "know" that wsl is in use and ad the --cd based on the value of org.eclipse.tm.terminal.connector.process.ProcessSettings.workingDir - perhaps a new launcher type is needed for wsl so that the front-end and back-end can be connected properly.