I'm trying to set up 2 terminal location tabs to open in my ConEmu Terminal on Windows 10 (for Windows Linux Subysystem)

1. Windows Home Directory

C:\Users\USERNAME or...
%USERPROFILE%

and

2. Linux Home Directory

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Lxss\home\USERNAME or...
%LOCALAPPDATA%\lxss\home\USERNAME

The Window Home path works fine, but I'm not sure how to make the Linux Home path work? The closest I can get is to making it open up the root / location.

Does anyone know the right way to do this?

2 Answers

I stumbled upon the article "Bashing Windows" (By: Jan De Dobbeleer),
which led me to this answer.

The main trick is the ~ (tilde) when opening the bash shell.

Home (Linux)

• BASH (path): C:\Windows\System32\Bash.exe ~ (has tilde ~)

• STARTUP DIRECTORY (path): C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\lxss\home

Root (Linux)

• BASH (path): C:\Windows\System32\Bash.exe (no tilde)
• STARTUP DIRECTORY (path): C:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Local\lxss\root

Home (Windows)

• BASH (path): C:\Windows\System32\Bash.exe (no tilde)
• STARTUP DIRECTORY (path): C:\Users\<YourUserName>

Not sure if things have changed, but the command I needed to launch ConEmu into my linux subsystem's home directory is:

%windir%\system32\bash.exe ~ -new_console:d:C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\lxss\home