Feature Request: Key binding for "New Window"

[quank123wip]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

• Default Hot key for call the Terminal such as Ctrl+Shift+T.

• Custom Hot Key to call different Environments.

Technical implementation details

None yet.

[zadjii-msft]

Do you possibly mean #653?

[quank123wip]

Do you possibly mean #653?

No, just call a new window,just like konsole

[zadjii-msft]

Oh, so just a keybinding for opening a new window? Yea we should do that.

[DHowett-MSFT]

I've renamed this to capture what I think it means.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Triaged. We need to think about what it means for terminal to have multiple windows. This will also impact how we do tab tearoff.

[DHowett-MSFT]

When we do this, we should consider supporting shift-click on the + button to open a new window.

[quank123wip]

When we do this, we should consider supporting shift-click on the + button to open a new window.

Maybe we should provide a setting?

[DHowett-MSFT]

Why would that setting be turned off? What’s the alternative scenario?

[ffes]

Note that in #2320 I suggested the Shift+Click on an entry in the list of profiles to open a new window as well.

[ffes]

Maybe we should provide a setting?

To make a normal click on the button / entry in the list of profiles open a new window and shift-click open a new tab you mean? So swap the behavior.

That could very well become my personal preference 😉

[bschaepper]

Building on the solution of @zadjii-msft that @damnskippy referenced, heres how to open a new WSL window:
{ "command": { "action": "newTab", "commandline":"wt.exe new-tab -p <your profile name>" }, "keys": [ "ctrl+shift+n" ] }

[quank123wip]

I think we need a better solution here. All workarounds are no use when the Windows Terminal isn't running, and for top-down(or drag-down) terminal, we also need a solution to start a new Windows Terminal instance. I think we'd better implement a guard process start when the system boot up. That should be in the Terminal v2.0 Milestone or any other Milestone before this feature.

[zadjii-msft]

@quank123wip I think what' you're actually looking for is #653

[quank123wip]

@quank123wip I think what' you're actually looking for is #653

Actually, I think both this feature and that need a same solution about auto start when system boots.

[zadjii-msft]

@quangkieu Hey wadda ya know, that's already a setting we support. See startOnUserLogin

[nacitar]

This is one of the few hotkeys missing for full compatibility with gnome-terminal's hotkeys.

Building on the solution of @zadjii-msft that @damnskippy referenced, heres how to open a new WSL window:
{ "command": { "action": "newTab", "commandline":"wt.exe new-tab -p <your profile name>" }, "keys": [ "ctrl+shift+n" ] }

This workaround also swaps the current window to the rightmost tab. =/

[ghost]

🎉This issue was addressed in #9208, which has now been successfully released as Windows Terminal Preview v1.7.572.0.:tada:

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