Tasks don't work at all with tmux setup

[joaomoreno]

Testing #29618

I have a setup which persists terminal sessions across Code executions, described here: https://medium.com/@joaomoreno/persistent-terminal-sessions-in-vs-code-8fc469ed6b41

With this setup, I can't run any tasks. When running a task, the Terminal pops up and nothing happens.

[dbaeumer]

I tried this for the May release and it is very tricky. Besides starting the task output scanning is difficult since you can spilt the task which the terminal as no idea of. It is basically one terminal instance having multiple windows using ASCII art.

May be we need to sit together to see what I can do here.

[dbaeumer]

However an idea is to allow you to force a shell to use using the following top level options

	"options": {
		"shell": {
			"executable": "bash",
			"args": ["-c"]
		}
	},

Currently a shell can only be defined on a specific task.

[jgardner04]

I have a similar issue where my default terminal is zsh and auto starts tmux by default. Launching VSCode from the Application folder or the doc on my mac causes most of the tasks to fail. If I launch VSCode via the command line code . it would work. When I don't auto start tmux in my .zshrc file launching from the application folder or the dock has the taks working correctly. Hope the context helps.

[alexr00]

Making tmux work with tasks is out of scope. But with the new setting "terminal.integrated.automationShell.linux" you can work around this.