# LibTmux.NewWindowRequest.StartDirectory

- **Module:** LibTmux.NewWindowRequest
- **Package:** LibTmux
- **Language:** .NET
- **Kind:** property
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-dotnet/blob/6656a563ec9e07ab52e0c3ac96f7704fc94cc0c0/src/LibTmux/Requests/NewWindowRequest.cs#L71
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/dotnet/libtmux-newwindowrequest-startdirectory/

Gets the working directory for the first pane.

tmux expands it as a format before it changes directory, so a <c>#</c>
in it does not survive verbatim.