Prevent integrated terminal from opening automatically - powershell

Whenever I open a PowerShell script in VS Code, the integrated terminal opens. How can we prevent the integrated terminal from opening automatically. I have searched the settings for "terminal" and have found nothing associated with auto-start.


VSCode will remember your last session.
So, if you close the terminal and exit VSCode, the next time you open, the terminal will not be displayed.
You can set your VSCode profile to not display (close the terminal on load).
As for User Settings:
This is not the first time this has been asked for.
https://github.com/PowerShell/vscode-powershell/issues/580
powershell.startAutomatically: When set to true (default), causes the
language service to start automatically the first time a PowerShell
file is opened. You could then use the "Restart PowerShell Session"
command to kick off the language service on demand. •
powershell.showIntegratedConsoleOnStartup: When set to true (default),
causes the integrated console window to be shown automatically when
the language service starts. If false, the language service starts but
the console window isn't shown until the user runs script code (or
runs the Show Integrated Console command)
Update as per the OP side discussion with me
What I just tested.
In your custom user settings, either set the:
"powershell.enableProfileLoading": false
or if you have that setting this way:
"powershell.enableProfileLoading": true
Add this setting:
"powershell.integratedConsole.showOnStartup": false,


What Worked
"powershell.integratedConsole.showOnStartup": false
If the setting isn't there yet, then simply add it.
What Almost Worked
Setting "powershell.startAutomatically": false also kills the entire PowerShell extension.
Relying on VSCode to remember the last session's setup works inconsistently; for instance, it does not work when loading a file directly from a terminal with $ code someFile.psm1.


I believe the setting is:
"terminal.integrated.enablePersistentSessions": false
regardless of Powershell or other types of terminals. This should be self-explanatory.


My VSCode v1.65.2
File->Preferences->Settings
In the Search settings input field:
Type the word-> terminal
Under Extensions:
Click-> Remote-SSH
Uncheck-> Always reveal the SSH login Terminal.
Close all VSCode windows and restart VSCode.
Open the remote SSH location and the integrated terminal should no longer open automatically.

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VSCode with codespace: set local terminal profile

I'm working on a project in a codespace but when I start a local integrated terminal within that session it defaults to PowerShell, not git-bash as is selected when I work completely local.
Does anyone know where to find the relevant setting to prevent this?
The dropdown in the terminal area only relates to the remote terminal session. I've also searched settings for terminal related items, but I'm not seeing anything clearly related to local terminal.

Stop automatic `conda activate` when opening a terminal in VS Code

VS Code has started running conda activate every time I open a terminal in VSCode, be it PowerShell, WSL, or CMD.
I never set this up intentionally so have no idea why it does this or how to disable it. I've looked at all my settings in VS Code and cannot find anything.
How do I stop VS Code from running conda activate when a new terminal is opened?

Try putting the following in your settings.json file:
"python.terminal.activateEnvironment": false
You're getting this behaviour because the default value of that setting is true if not specified.
For more info, see VS Code's docs on Using Python environments in VS Code- in particular, the Working with Python interpreters
section, and the Environments and Terminal windows
section.
Quoting from that page:
Tip: To prevent automatic activation of a selected environment, add "python.terminal.activateEnvironment": false to your settings.json file (it can be placed anywhere as a sibling to the existing settings).
Reading the changelog, this setting was added in version 2018.9.0 of the Python extension for VS Code. The PR that added it was #1387.

How to make cmd the default terminal that gets opened in VSCode on opening VS Code.?

When I open my VSCode the default terminal that gets opened is PowerShell. I wants the default one that gets opened to be CMD. How can I change it?
I have configured the Terminal: Select Default Profile to be CMD and its also made sure as seen in the below pic.
I restarted the VSCode several times, still on opening VS Code the terminal that gets opened is PowerShell. Should I make any changes to settings.json?

vscode automatically "source activate" everytime launches new terminal

Recently when I'm using vscode, everytime I launches the built-in terminal, it automatically uses "source activate base" to launch a anaconda python virtual environment. You can see the screenshot
I don't think I changed anything but it just came up randomly. Can someone help me out?

To prevent automatic activation of a selected environment, add
"python.terminal.activateEnvironment": false
to your settings.json file (it can be placed anywhere as a sibling to the existing settings). However, debugging or running Python code without any activated environment won't work.

VS Code Terminal Not Allowing Typing

My VS code terminal was working fine, until one day when I tried to work on a project, that was still open in VS code, my terminal didn't allow me to type any commands. I couldn't type anything. This is the screen that I get.

Okay, for those of you struggling with the same problem, I've managed to solve it by clicking on the drop-down menu that says powershell and changing it to cmd.

this happened to me and simply
close vs code
right click on it
run as administrator
open the terminal and it will work
this problem happened when I changed the default path of CMD

For me, I tried using Powershell/CMD/Bash and I was having errors/blank terminal. I found typing echo hello and pressing CTRL + C made it appear. So in fact, everything was working, my terminal was just blank/glitched out, but was really accepting input.

I had a similar issue when running ionic serve command which runs the development server on the localhost. I paid attention after executing the command above, and it said:
Use Ctrl+C to quit this process
Pressing Ctrl+C then displays:
Terminate batch job (Y/N)?
Type Y or y
then the command prompt is shown again!
Here is a sample terminal window - trimmed for brevity:

For who has this problem using React. This happens when you start a live version using npm start. The terminal that handles the live version of the app cannot be used for anything else.
So to continue using the terminal you need to open a new terminal to use in parallel. To do so just click on the plus icon in the top right corner of the terminal panel then choose the "Power Shell" option. This will open a new terminal without restarting visual studio.

In Mac, when working with Python, this helped me: instead of clicking on the "Run Code" option, click on "Run Python file", in the right corner.

For Ubuntu users this is solved by this solution:
File -> Preferences -> Setting -> Features -> Terminal -> Inherit Env

I found two vscode on my desktop, I opened the other one and it worked. Looks like I updated it but the older one didn't disappear.

If typing Ctrl+C can help to get out of this frozen state, that will be easier to do with VSCode 1.64 (Jan. 2022)
The terminal can type the answer for you.
Terminal -- Auto-reply
The terminal is now able to automatically reply when a specific sequences of characters is received.
A good example of where this is useful, which is also the only default case, is the Windows batch script message Terminate batch job (Y/N)? after hitting Ctrl+C when running a batch script.
This typically just ends up causing problems for the user.
The terminal will now automatically reply with Y and enter (\r) which makes Ctrl+C in Windows feel much better.
Pressing Ctrl+C will immediately reply to the question and return to the prompt:
Theme: Sapphire
The feature was made generically so you can setup custom replies for other thing, just be careful when doing this as you are sending text to the process automatically.
For example you could use it to automatically update Oh My Zsh when prompted:
"terminal.integrated.autoReplies": {
"[Oh My Zsh] Would you like to check for updates? [Y/n]": "Y\r"
}
If you use Clink and enable their similar feature, you can disable it in Clink or in VS Code by setting the reply to null to avoid the two features conflicting with each other:
"terminal.integrated.autoReplies": {
"Terminate batch job (Y/N)": null
}

Go to terminal, preferences, settings.
Check "run code in terminal"
Restart VS.

I changed from bash to powershell in terminal first but the command prompt still not shown.
Then I navigate to File -> Perferences -> Settings and it starts working (command prompt shown)

This seems to just be a display problem. It happened to me when I changed my display settings for desktop icon and app scaling settings.
I managed to fix the problem by simply restarting my computer and re-opening VS code

I had the same problem ... In my case just run vs-code as administrator and works