Opening new i3 terminals in the same working directory

I’ve recently started using i3 and I absolutely love it. I quickly got annoyed with having to cd to the current directory each time I opened a new pane.

Simple fix/hack: add the following to my PROMPT_COMMAND

pwd > /tmp/whereami

This is to log my current working directory to a tmp file. A single modification my i3 config file

bindsym $mod+Return exec i3-sensible-terminal --working-directory=$(cat /tmp/whereami)

ensures that I always start gnome-terminal, ( i3-sensible-terminal = $TERMINAL ) for me, in the last logged directory.

I’m sure there’s a better way to this. For now, this gets the job done for me.