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Terminal profiles are definitely a nice addition to Theia, thanks!
In general the change looks good to me and seems to work well for the most part. (Tested on Linux & Windows)
However, there seems to be a problem with persisting the setting for the default profile.
If I change the default terminal profile, everything works as expected during the active session (i.e. new terminals spawn with the new profile), When I close and reopen Theia the setting is lost and the system default for the terminal profile is used again. The corresponding setting (terminal.integrated.defaultProfileXX) is set but it seems to be ignored.
Secondly, I noticed that the cmd Profile is not working on Window when using node 14. For me it just spawns empty new terminal windows which I cannot interact with.
With node 16 everything works as expected.
The default Profile for Linux is also calledCMD which is a bit confusing.
Compared to VS Code I noticed that some nice-to-have features are missing. They don't necessarily have to be part of this initial contribution and can also be tackled with a follow-up PR:
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No system default profiles.
Depending on the underlying OS VS Code creates default profiles for the installed terminals e.g. "CMD, PowerShell & Gitbash" for Windows or "Bash, Zash and Tmux" for Linux. This would be really usefull for Theia as well -
In VS Code the settings UI element for setting the default profile is a selection box rather than a plain text box. Maybe we should implement it in the same way in Theia?
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that's odd. I'll have a look.
Good catch, strange that this would make a difference 🤷♂️
I guess that's a copy/paste error in the preferences
Yes, I considered that out of scope, given that the issue I'm fixing is to implement the VS Code profiles API.
Which UI element do you mean? The one when you do F1-Profile: Select Default Profile? How is that different from what we have? |
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I can confirm that the default profile is now correclty loaded on startup and that the OS default Profile for Linux is now named "SHELL".
Agreed, definitely out of scope for this issue
I was talking about the text box in the Preferences UI for setting the default profile ( |
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@tortmayr I just built and ran the browser version with nodejs v14.21.2. Running the 'cmd' profile works just fine for me. Do you maybe have a 'cmd' profile defined in the settings which might override the built-in? |
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Ah, OK. T.b.h, I would defer that to a future task: I don't think it's that important, since there is an alternative via the terminal menu (which I would expect most people to use), and I'd would rather focus on making sure we get the PR merged for the community release, as this would allow us to raise the support API version. |
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- UI and service to manage terminal profiles - Handle profiles in preferences according to VS Code schema - API and contribution markup for contributing profiles and activation event handling contributed on behalf of STMicroelectronics Signed-off-by: Thomas Mäder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mäder <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Thomas Mäder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mäder <[email protected]>
What it does
Adds support for terminal profiles.
Fixes #11503
contributed on behalf of ST Microelectronics
How to test
This PR adds two new items under the "Terminal" menu: "New Terminal...", which allows to select a profile and use it to open a terminal and "Choose Default Profile", which selects the profile to be used when selecting "New Terminal" from the menu.
Some profiles are added by default ("cmd" by default on windows), but they can also be contributed by plugins or defined in the preferences.
Here are two extensions that can be used to test contributed terminals:
plugins.zip
One contributes a shell terminal profile ("JavaScript Debug Terminal") and the other a pseudo-pty terminal ("My Extension Terminal").
Adding profiles via terminals is described here:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/terminal/profiles
Note that terminal "source"s have not been implemented. Theia will accept the syntax, but the resulting profiles will not work.
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