-d, --notebook-dir option not quite working as expected

[mkandes]

If you open two notebook sessions on the same system one after another with different working directory paths specified with the -d, --notebook-dir option, the second notebook session still starts in the working directory of the first notebook session. The problem may be Jupyter caching the working directory of the first notebook session in the ~/.jupyter directory. Investigate and provide a fix, if and when possible

[mkandes]

https://discourse.jupyter.org/t/multiple-jupyter-labs-at-once-without-shared-state/11401/2

[mkandes]

https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/directories.html#jupyterlab-workspaces-directory

[mkandes]

Testing no currently showing the problem when using --env-modules cpu,gcc,anaconda3 on Expanse.