Terminal Names Not Loading

[katm201]

If you have multiple terminals within a group, only the first terminal in the group will have its name load. All subsequent terminals pick up the default process name.

Example LoadTerminal.json

{
    "version": "packageJson.version",
    "customGroup": [],
    "groups": [
        {
            "name": "Active",
            "description": "Main development group of terminals and commands",
            "enabled": true,
            "terminals": [
                {
                    "name": "main",
                    "path": ".",
                    "cmd": [],
                    "num": 0
                },
                {
                    "name": "build",
                    "path": "./src",
                    "cmd": [
                        "build",
                        "yarn watch"
                    ],
                    "num": 0
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Background",
            "description": "Background process terminals and commands",
            "enabled": true,
            "terminals": [
                {
                    "name": "up",
                    "path": ".",
                    "cmd": [
                        "dev/up"
                    ],
                    "num": 0
                },
                {
                    "name": "dashboard",
                    "path": ".",
                    "cmd": [
                        "minikube dashboard"
                    ],
                    "num": 0
                },
                {
                    "name": "sw web",
                    "path": "./src/packages/web",
                    "cmd": [
                        "yarn swap"
                    ],
                    "num": 0
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

Here's the actual terminal names and their initially-printed output:

• active group:
  • main (this is correct) terminal output:

    main
    cd .
    $ cd .

  • zsh (this should be build) terminal output:

    cd ./src
    build
    yarn watch
    $ cd ./src
    $ build
    $ yarn watch

• background group:
  • up (this is correct) terminal output:

    up
    cd .
    dev/up
    $ cd .
    $ dev/up

  • minikube (this should be dashboard) terminal output:

    cd .
    minikube dashboard
    $ cd .
    $ minikube dashboard

  • zsh (this should be sw web) terminal output:

    cd ./src/packages/web
    yarn swap
    $ cd ./src/packages/web
    $ yarn swap

You'll notice that all terminals except the first per group are not actually setting the terminal name in the printed output.

[ariassd]

Hello @katm201

Thanks for your report, renaming terminals is a problem that appeared with latest version of vscode, I'm looking for a solution, but I'm not sure why or what is the problem exactly.

The problem jump out when you open or split a new terminal and rename it using renameWithArgs the terminal name is changed but immediately the name returns to the default value.

I have fixed the problem when you create a new terminal, but splitting terminal persists because the only way to split a terminal is with the command workbench.action.terminal.split and after that I need to rename with workbench.action.terminal.renameWithArg, but this command have the weird behavior and the terminal lose the name few miliseconds later.

Unfortunately I have limited time to find solutions or change the whole process but I'm looking for alternatives to fix it.

Regards
Luis Arias

[leite08]

I had this as well.

Since I don't need to group terminals, what I did was to create one group per terminal, instead of multiple terminals into one group.

Works like a charm now.