Include cwd in terminal title

[imlgm]

currently, vscode name the terminal with like 1: bash, 2:bash, after a while it's hard for to remember which one opening which directory. how about naming them by the opened folder or pah of the opened folder.

I also want there could be a simple way to switch focus between the terminal and workspace. currently, I have to use Command+J to hide the terminal or mouse clicking.

[Tyriar]

@imlgm this custom keybinding makes it easier to switch between editor and terminal:

{ "key": "ctrl+`",          "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus", "when": "!terminalFocus" },

[imlgm]

@Tyriar
sorry for responsing so late, so many works

I tried the custom keybinding, it did help a lot, thanks

[Tyriar]

Related: #20676 (comment)

[caub]

@Tyriar

{"key": "ctrl+`", "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focus", "when": "!terminalFocus"}

is interesting (by default that shortcut just toggles terminals visibility, so that's fine using that shortcut)

What I'd terribly like is that it not only focus the terminal, but focus the 'right' terminal, or opens one for that project (in the context of a multi-projects workspace)

I guess you'll answer that this is the job for an extension, so I'll try to make one, because it'd be so practical for me

What I'm after is a mix of openInTerminal and workbench.action.terminal.focus, reusing the ones opened previously. I already discussed it, and the conclusion was to make an extension

I still think it's not a big feature, and would be worth adding in core

[ibufu]

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[dee-kryvenko]

Why is it not respecting the bash title by default? I'd expect it to have similar behaviour to iterm or iterm2, so I can put something like '\[\e]0;\W\a\]' to my PS1 and vscode terminal will pick it up.

[Tyriar]

@llibicpep tracked in #22325

[Tyriar]

@llibicpep I just added a terminal.integrated.experimentalUseTitleEvent setting which when true will use the title from the sequence. Try it out in tomorrow's insides and leave feedback in #22325

[ToniCipriani]

Enabled this and my pulldown is just /bin/bash instead of bash:

[Tyriar]

@ToniCipriani that's expected, it's whatever the shell sends to the terminal as the title. #22325 isn't meant to fix this issue generally.

[DesignByOnyx]

I just wanted to report that I enabled the terminal.integrated.experimentalUseTitleEvent feature. I then prepended my PS1 with \[\e]0;\W\a\]. If you're unsure how to do this you can search around or you can basically add the following to the bottom of your terminal config (eg: .bashrc):

PS1="\[\e]0;\W\a\]$PS1"

This will not affect your terminal formatting, and it will use the current directory name as the Terminal title. Once you have saved the file, open a new terminal in VSCode to verify.

[Tyriar]

@DesignByOnyx FYI that will change in the next version: "terminal.integrated.titleMode": "sequence"

[xianghongai]

I am looking forward to the automatic naming function of Terminal.
@Tyriar

[Tyriar]

We may want to do something like window.title for this, for example:

"terminal.integrated.title": "${processTitle}${sequenceTitle}${cwd}"

One complication is that cwd would only work for mac and linux though.

[DesignByOnyx]

I still prefer the integrated terminal inherit the title from my system terminal. I kept the PS1 changes from my comment above, but then had to update the new "Title Mode" setting to "sequence":

"terminal.integrated.titleMode": "sequence"

[Pyrolistical]

thanks for adding the sequence title mode, but would like an option to just have the title be the current directory. I bet this is the desired default for the vast majority of users

[kusyka911]

We may want to do something like window.title for this, for example:

"terminal.integrated.title": "${processTitle}${sequenceTitle}${cwd}"

One complication is that cwd would only work for mac and linux though.

I think this would be a nice solution.

[ivandov]

So, the above solution setting on terminal.integrated.title isn't a currently available option, right? I don't see it in the defaultSettings.json. I only have terminal.integrated.titleMode, which sounds like I can potentially use the sequence value, as long as I change the way I'm setting my PS1 value?

[Tyriar]

We'll want to look at reverting the change for #78438 which breaks the macOS cwd detection as our official product builds have the electron fix, just not oss as it's waiting on libuv/libuv#3257.

[meganrogge]

Here's what we're currently thinking. Let us know if you have feedback.

[ivandov]

Is the terminal title also able to use the variables that are referenced in the description examples given?

It's less important to me that I'm running bash or pwsh than it is for me to know the terminal was launched for a specific project or directory.

[meganrogge]

yep @ivandov title and description can have any of these properties now

• cwd
• cwdFolder
• local
• process
• separator
• sequence
• task

[Tyriar]

Let's keep open until #132775 and #132774 are done (and any other follow ups).

[Tyriar]

Closing as the big follow ups are done.