Adds custom terminal launch settings #3495

pflannery · 2016-02-26T14:55:04Z

This allows windows and linux users to specify which terminal they would like to launch when using the browser context menu -> "Open in Command Prompt".
Falls back to the default terminal if no settings specified.

New setting examples:

// Place your settings in this file to overwrite default and user settings.
"terminal.external": {
    "windowsExec": "cmd", // default
    "linuxExec": "x-terminal-emulator" // default for debian, otherwise "gnome-terminal" for gnome desktops
}

Ensures any spawn error is sent to the errors.onUnexpectedError event.

relates to #597

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pflannery · 2016-02-26T15:02:53Z

A couple of things

~~I wasn't sure on was how I could add typings for this new setting.~~
~~I couldn't find any tests for this area so I haven't added a test. So instead I've extracted the dependencies use to spawn into spawnTerminal(...) so its easy to mock in the future~~

pflannery · 2016-03-15T21:17:40Z

@joaomoreno I've added a terminal configuration extension point for windows and linux which allows them to override the default shell launch by vscode.
I wasn't sure what to do for osx as it has script files, so I havent added anything for osx.

Tyriar · 2016-03-21T04:00:40Z

@pflannery any thoughts on how we could have fallback terminal emulators on Linux? We will eventually want to have at least 2 such as x-terminal-emulator (Debian) and gnome-terminal (Red Hat), probably more eventually as there are other display managers. I'd like to get it so that it works out of the box on Red Hat pretty soon (#4478).

I also noticed while doing a little research in to #4478 that gnome has something similar to the alternatives system in Debian for specifying a preferred terminal:

# Ubuntu
❯ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec
'x-terminal-emulator'

# Fedora
❯ gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec
'gnome-terminal'

pflannery · 2016-03-21T04:25:23Z

@Tyriar could use process.env.DESKTOP_SESSION === 'gnome'

- ensures terminal default is used when the terminal setting is removed

pflannery · 2016-03-21T05:39:41Z

could have powershell as windows default?

Tyriar · 2016-03-21T07:08:47Z

@pflannery nice improvement! Ideally it would only revert to gnome-terminal if it's not Debian based, you could do this by checking if /etc/debian_version exists. Not sure if this is an OK thing to do for default values, but it probably only needs to be done once. @joaomoreno?

Tyriar · 2016-03-22T08:18:26Z

@pflannery this is more @joaomoreno's area, but powershell isn't built into older versions of Windows like 7 is it?

pflannery · 2016-03-22T16:26:06Z

@Tyriar just looked this up and looks like it's vista backwards that doesn't support powershell out of the box - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#PowerShell_2.0

Tyriar · 2016-03-24T01:40:03Z

src/vs/workbench/parts/execution/electron-browser/terminalService.ts

+	private spawnTerminal(spawner, configuration, path: string, onExit, onError) {
+		let terminalConfig = configuration.terminal;
+		let exec = terminalConfig.linux.exec || defaultLinuxTerm;
+		const child = spawner.spawn(exec, [], { cwd: path });


Does just setting the cwd work with gnome-terminal? You may need to pass in --working-directory=path for that?

node runs gnome-terminal at cwd specified in the options. I tested on Fedora 23 and it does go to the cwd specified. I think it's just a useful flag when someone wants to run from a different path other than the cwd gnome-terminal was executed from.

joaomoreno · 2016-03-24T07:26:16Z

Currently OOF, will check this next week.

A standard Fedora install comes with 2 multiple line environment variables. Since `env` was previously split by '\n' this would break them, causing errors in the output pane and in terminals launched through the file explorer (see #3495). Fixes #3928

A standard Fedora install comes with 2 multiple line environment variables. Since `env` was previously split by '\n' this would break them, causing errors in the output pane and in terminals launched through the file explorer (see #3495). The original commit didn't work on OSX since `env` does not support the --null arg. This version can fail if a command line arg's 1+th line looks like an environment variable. There is no easy way to prevent this since `process.env` cannot be leveraged. Since the likelyhood of this happening is small, plus the chance of it causing any significant issue is also small it's a reasonable compromise for the time being. Fixes #3928 Fixes #4672

Tyriar · 2016-04-04T14:57:29Z

Ping @joaomoreno

Tyriar · 2016-04-18T16:37:36Z

src/vs/workbench/parts/execution/common/terminal.ts

+ *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+import fs = require('fs');
+import env = require('vs/base/common/platform');


env -> platform, I think the instances where this is env are older ones that weren't cleaned up

Tyriar · 2016-04-18T18:50:35Z

src/vs/workbench/parts/execution/electron-browser/terminal.ts

Typo DEFAULT

Tyriar · 2016-04-18T19:11:53Z

src/vs/workbench/parts/execution/test/browser/terminalService.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,129 @@
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


This should also live in electron-browser/.

Tyriar · 2016-04-18T19:12:43Z

I think this is good to go other than moving the test to electron-browser/ and the DEFAULT typo.

Tyriar · 2016-04-18T20:09:30Z

Love it 😃 Thanks @pflannery! 🎆

pflannery · 2016-04-18T20:20:33Z

thanks!

willin · 2016-04-22T18:27:56Z

+1 https://atom.io/packages/terminal-panel

trendoid · 2016-05-10T12:26:26Z

I'm just getting to use this today. Thanks @pflannery I love it.

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Request feature "Integrated terminal" #143

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adds terminal command configuration for windows and linux

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OS X: "Open in Terminal" doesn't work for me #4298

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"Open in Terminal" not working on Fedora #4478

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makes gnome-terminal default when running on gnome desktop

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VSCode corrupts multi-line environment variables #3928

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Customizable 'Open in Command Prompt' console #4848

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do i have a way to change native windows console ? #5421

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export const DEFAILT_WINDOWS_TERM = 'cmd';

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