# tmux.NewSessionRequest.StartDirectory

- **Module:** tmux.NewSessionRequest
- **Package:** github.com/libtmux/libtmux-go/tmux
- **Language:** Go
- **Kind:** attribute
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-go/blob/5f808882015a975a65acc7f9da5b3ff0d5cbdc91/tmux/session_lifecycle.go#L43
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/reference/go/tmux-newsessionrequest-startdirectory/

StartDirectory expands ~ and ~/... for the current user. Named-user forms such as ~other are rejected; empty inherits tmux's default.