VSCode - Open terminals in a separate window

Question

in VSCode is it possible to open the terminals in a separate window? So far my research has pointed to a resounding NO but Im curious if anyone has a solution?

Solution 1

Move terminals between windows

It's now possible to move terminals between windows by detaching via Terminal: Detach Session in one and attaching to another with Terminal: Attach to Session. In the future this should help enable cross-window drag and drop!

Lots of changes in v1.58: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_58.md#terminals-in-the-editor-area

For v1.59 moving the terminal changes - including dragging and dropping onto another window, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/v1_59.md#drag-and-drop-terminals-across-windows

Drag and drop terminals across windows

Drag terminals from the tabs list or editor area of one window into the tabs list, editor area, or panel of another window.

Terminals in the editor area

Terminals can now be created in or moved to the editor area, enabling a multi-dimensional grid layout that persists and remains visible regardless of panel state.

To use terminals in the editor area, there are several options:

Create via the Create Terminal in Editor Area command.
Move a terminal from the panel to the editor by dragging and dropping from the tabs list.
Running Move Terminal into Editor Area with a terminal focused.
Moving into the editor area via the terminal tab context menu action.

The new terminal.integrated.defaultLocation setting can be set to editor to direct newly created terminals to the editor area by default.

Solution 2

Please Try:

1. File > Open New Window
2. Ctrl+Shift+P > Terminal: Create New Terminal in Editor Area

You can add keybinding to the commands as per your convenience.

Solution 3

You can't detach the panes in VSCode, which IMO is a bit of a pain since Visual Studio can detach panes all day long.

There is a workaround though, you can open a new window in VSCode and maximize the terminal pane in that window.

Solution 4

You can create a new window by going to File>New Window and then open up a new terminal inside of it. Inside the new terminal you can go to your folder by using "cd your\projectfolder\path". And here you are, you have a terminal for your project inside it's own seperate window (I'm actualy using it like this too.) I hope this answered your question. Have a nice day, DevMo.

Solution 5

i think that the OP wants to create a separate window for the terminal but still have the separated terminal linked to the code editor in the original window (that's what i want too). so that when you run the code in the editor the output is shown in the terminal in the separate window. but if you simply open up a new window of vscode and either open a terminal there or drag and drop the terminal from the original window into the new window, the new terminal is not the same session of the terminal. it is a separate independent unconnected terminal. running the code in the editor does not show output in the new separate terminal. all you have achieved is creating a new unconnected terminal. which you could have just accomplished by opening up a regular terminal window i.e. the one from windows os main menu, no need even to use vscode.

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Comments

[Mark]

See stackoverflow.com/a/68247892/836330 and github.com/microsoft/vscode-docs/blob/vnext/release-notes/… for moving a terminal from one window to another.

[Sohrab]

What is the point of that?Why not just open a terminal window and maximize that? cmd? powershell? or sth?

[Mi Be]

It gives me following error: The active editor must contain an openable resource.

[Ahmad Ismail]

@MiBe thanks for the feedback. I have edited the answer. Please let me know if you find any more issues.

[Mi Be]

It works. Thanks

[Themelis]

In my case I want to match the theme of the editor + terminal

[John Henckel]

I am using Python and when I press F5 to debug it always opens a terminal in the same window as my source code. I don't like that. I want F5 to open the terminal in a different window. I guess the best solution is to open the same project and python environment in a different window, and then if I want to debug, I have to Ctrl-K+S in one window, click the other window, and then hit F5. Not very convenient though.