Setting Tabby as default terminal program?

[ghost]

Is it possible to set Tabby as the default terminal program in Windows 10 and Windows 11?

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[Eugeny]

AFAIK Windows doesn't have a concept of a default terminal. On the screenshot is the default profile selector in the Windows Terminal.

[GameBurrow]

That selection in Win 11 and newer versions of Win 10 actually do set the console application, all regular scripts (non-admin) do open in the selected terminal. It's a newer feature they added last year.

Same setting can found in powershell and cmd settings:

[Comnenus]

I would like to be able to do this, also.

[ysc3839]

Related: microsoft/terminal#7489
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%23492%20-%20Default%20Terminal/spec.md

[ysc3839]

This feature need this PR to be merged: microsoft/node-pty#716

[ysc3839]

@Eugeny Hello, I'm working on this feature now. I'm not familiar with tabby plugin development, so I need your help.
The workflow is:

1. The plugin registers terminal handoff callback.
2. When an external console app starts, the callback will be called with some handles.
3. The handles need to be passed to node-pty and get a useable pty instance.
4. Create a new tab with that pty instance.

The modified node-pty is at ysc3839/node-pty@1feb412
The module to register callback is still working in progress.
Basically the usage is:

const pty = require('node-pty');
const handoff = require('terminal-handoff');

handoff.register(/*clsid=*/'{E12CFF52-A866-4C77-9A90-F570A7AA2C6B}', /*callback=*/function (input, output, signal, ref, server, client) {
  const handoffHandles = { input, output, signal, ref, server, client };
  const pty = pty.handoff(handoffHandles);
}, /*once=*/false);

A demo video:

node-terminal-handoff.mp4