[Question] How to keep terminal opened after quiting LF. about lf HOT 2 CLOSED

Below line may partially do what you want. You should change zsh to bash, fish, sh or whatever shell program you prefer.

Exec=st -e sh -c "cd %u; lf; zsh"

This does not follow the directory where lf ends up. The directory of the shell will be the the downloaded directory.

After few more tries, figured out how to follow the path. Nevertheless, the command gets long and dirty. You may improve the command further by removing the temporary file and whatnot.

Exec=st -e sh -c "cd %u; lf -last-dir-path='/tmp/tmp.lfdir'; cd \"$(cat /tmp/tmp.lfdir)\"; zsh"

from lf.

@gokberkgunes
Awesome, it does indeed worked as I expected.
Yesterday, I was looking around and also found a solution to this. I created a script which included the lfcd() function then add lfcd "$@"; $SHELL at the end of the script. Call the script inside lf.desktop Exec=st -e /path/to/script %u which does exactly the same thing as

Exec=st -e sh -c "cd %u; lf -last-dir-path='/tmp/tmp.lfdir'; cd \"$(cat /tmp/tmp.lfdir)\"; zsh"

however, your version, it a lot shorter and doesn't require additional script and does exactly the same thing 👍

##### lf.sh
#!/bin/sh
lfcd () {
    tmp="$(mktemp)"
    # `command` is needed in case `lfcd` is aliased to `lf`
    command lf -last-dir-path="$tmp" "$@"
    if [ -f "$tmp" ]; then
        dir="$(cat "$tmp")"
        rm -f "$tmp"
        if [ -d "$dir" ]; then
            if [ "$dir" != "$(pwd)" ]; then
                cd "$dir"
            fi
        fi
    fi
}

lfcd "$@"; $SHELL

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