# config.initialPaneStartDirectory

- **Module:** config
- **Package:** @libtmux/workspace
- **Language:** TypeScript
- **Kind:** function
- **Source:** https://github.com/libtmux/libtmux-ts/blob/3fe1ca654b81b8cbf4a13b777a001a3298c87a6f/packages/workspace/src/config.ts#L119
- **Page:** https://libtmux.org/en/ts/latest/workspace/reference/config-initialpanestartdirectory/

```
config.initialPaneStartDirectory(workspace: : Workspace) -> string | undefined
```

The directory tmux needs when it creates the session's first pane.