kitty start in directory of last active kitty window in tiling wm

[christf]

I have read the documentation on kitten @launch including --cwd=current but I am not exactly finding what I am looking for. Seeing that kitty and its modules is very elaborate, it seems this use case has been considered and I just do not know how to configure the system. That being said, I am fairly new to kitty so probably am missing something - pointers and help would be appreciated.

I use a tiling window manager and I run many terminals at the same time. In a way, the window manager is the terminal multiplexer. When I open a new terminal, I would like it to be opened with the working directory of the last-active terminal.
https://github.com/t-8ch/taterm was built around that idea. I open new terminal windows using a key-combination via xbindkeysrc. This is great when having editor in one window, debugging in another, building in a third etc.

So, I would like to configure the cwd for new kitty windows. Currently I run kitty with: kitty -1.
kitten @launch --type=os-window --cwd=current gets close. It does what I would like to do, but I cannot do this from xbindkeys.

How could I achieve this?

[kovidgoyal]

Set remote control to listen on a Unix socket and then run the kitten @ launch command from xbindkeys with --to to connect to that socket.

[christf]

nice, this works on the spot! Thank you very much!

[christf]

I will have to re-open. When I ssh into a host and then start a new kitty instance, the new one will also be ssh'd into the same remote host. exiting the ssh session is not possible so now I cannot use kitty any more to access my local system.

On first start, I run:

/usr/bin/kitty -1 --listen-on=unix:/tmp/kitty

on subsequent starts I use:

kitten @launch --type=os-window --cwd=current --to=unix:/tmp/kitty

how do I not automatically connect to ssh? Or better yet, how can I exit ssh in those newly-spawned os-windows without closing the entire window?