How do I remove a custom terminal profile from Visual Studio Code? - visual-studio-code

Question

How do I delete the custom profile "New 1" as shown in the picture?

Answer 1

I'm using Zsh, so I suggest configuration
"terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
"zsh": {
"path": "/bin/zsh",
"icon": "star",
"env": {
"TESTING_VAR": "abc"
}
}
},
"terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.osx": "zsh",

Answer 2

As described in the Configuring profiles section of the VS Code docs), when you create a custom terminal profile, it adds an entry to your settings.json file:
The recommended way to create a new profile is to run the Terminal: Select Default Profile command and activate the configure button on the right side of the shell to base it on. This will add a new entry to your settings that can be tweaked manually in your settings.json file.
...
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
"PowerShell -NoProfile": {
"source": "PowerShell",
"args": ["-NoProfile"]
}
},
"terminal.integrated.profiles.linux": {
"zsh (login)": {
"path": "zsh",
"args": ["-l"]
}
}
So open your User settings and you'll find the terminal.integrated.profiles.<OS> setting with an added entry for your custom profile under your corresponding OS. It is better to open the settings.json file directly, or open it from the UI "Edit settings.json":
settings UI
settings.json
"terminal.integrated.profiles.osx": {
"1": {
"path": "bash"
}
}
(I'm using a Mac OS so I have it in .osx. It gets added correspondingly to .linux or .windows)
To remove your custom profile:
Simply delete your custom profile ("1": {...}) from terminal.integrated.profiles
Reload/Restart VS Code
When VS Code reloads/restarts, the removed custom profiles should be gone. (It seems these custom profiles are read and loaded one-time during VS Code startup).
Note though that this only works for custom profiles. For built-in profiles, you'll have to set the profile to null instead:
To remove profile entries from the dropdown, set the name of the profile to null. For example, to remove the Git Bash profile on Windows, use this setting:
"terminal.integrated.profiles.windows": {
"Git Bash": null
}