"startupActions": with quake mode are not behaving correctly

[mullcom]

Windows Terminal version

1.13.10733.0

Windows build number

10.0.19044.1586]

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

Run command in a sinel terminal
wt -w _quake ;sp -H;sp;sp

Then test add this now to settings json file
"startupActions": "wt -w _quake sp -H;sp;sp",

Expected Behavior

All sp i add in startupActions wt command should release on quake mode window.

Actual Behavior

i have try to get several sp in but only manage get one sp in quake mode the rest adds to startup terminal.

[zadjii-msft]

I don't think wt -w is supported in startupActions at all... Hmm.

[mullcom]

it working with two SP so but failing when i add more. yast test it for your self and you find out.

zadjii-msft commented on Jul 26, 2021
At the moment, not really.

You could do something like wt -w _quake -p {your profile name} - that'll launch the Terminal into quake mode with the profile of your choice.
You could always rebind quakeMode to a generic globalSummon action. That'd let you just summon any Terminal window, not just the quake one.
Otherwise, you could wait for #9992 to be able to change the defaultProfile of the _quake window separately from the normal default

[zadjii-msft]

Okay I see what's going on here.

When you put wt -w _quake sp ; sp ; sp into startup actions, here's what happens:

• the terminal parses this into three subcommands: [wt -w _quake sp, sp, sp]
• The first one doesn't parse as an action. wt isnt a subcommand, so we treat it as a commandline. We run a tab with the commandline wt -w _quake sp.
  • THIS CREATES A NEW WINDOW, the quake window, with a commandline of sp
  • The quake window defaults to creating a tab. Then it processes the sp, splitting the pane.
• The original terminal window then parses a sp, and creates a new split for this sp.
• The original terminal window then parses a sp, and creates a new split for this sp.

So, you end up with two terminal windows, a _quake window and a normal one, each with two panes.

Putting -w in the startupActions is definitely not recommended. What I was talking about above was running wt -w _quake sp ; sp ; sp from like, the run dialog, or a shortcut, or another Terminal window. Putting the above into startupActions will cause the _quake window to create a new split each and every launch, which would be weird.