I have followed Tess Ferrandez' blog for setting up a custom theme in WinDbg.
I have also started launching WinDbg automatically with -c ".cmdtree c:\mycmdtree.txt"
This correctly opens my cmdtree file as a commands window, but I can't get it to dock properly. The problem appears to be that 'commands' windows can only be opened after you have opened a DMP file, but opening a DMP file switches you out of the 'base' workspace, therefore any changes to your workspace aren't saved.
Any ideas?
This simple request turns out to really complicated. WinDbg's window positions are saved in a workspace. WinDbg has several default workspaces:
Base - this is the workspace that is used before you start debugging (no dump open, no exe open, not attached to anything)
Per dump file - for each dump you open, you have a workspace for this file
Per executable file - for each executable file you open.
User-mode - used when you are live user-mode debugging
Kernel-mode - used when you are kernel-mode debugging
Per machine architecture - 1 for x64, 1 for x86, & 1 for IA64
Remote - used when you are remote debugging
For any given type of debug (i.e. Live user-mode or post-mortem dump analysis) you usually end up with a combination of settings of Base+Your type of debug.
If you open a dump file, you get BASE+Per dump file
If you live user-mode debug, you get BASE+User-mode
If you live kernel debug a x64 machine, you get BASE+Kernel-mode+x64
All the changes you make in any given mode are saved in the workspace that was overlapped last. This means that if we open a dump file (so we are Base+Per dump), any changes to settings would be saved in the workspace for this dump.
In addition to the built in workspaces and all of their combinations, there are named (customer) workspaces. These would be when you go to File > Save Workspace, and provide a name to save all you settings which you could then enable on launch of Windbg using the -W command line argument.
Back to your question. How can I get the .cmdtree to open? In the base workspace you can't. Many of the windows are only available when the debugger is NOT in the dormant state (in its BASE workspace). Once you get the debugger into any of its active states, then these windows are available.
The problem you run into is that in order to get everything setup the way you want it, you have to have the debugger in an active state (an exe open, a dump open, live debugging) and when you go to save you window layout, it is also going to save which exe you had open, or dump, or live debug you were doing.
Your best bet is to just do what you were already doing, which is to just use the -c in the registry (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\WinDbg.DumpFile.1\shell\Open\command). This will allow you to just double click a dump and get these command line options every time you are doing dump analysis. You can then create a shortcut to windbg that also incorporates the command line so these settings will be applied for the other types of debugging you do.
Here is my command line from the regkey above:
"c:\debuggers\x64\windbg.exe" -z "%1" -Q -W Internal -c ".load winde.dll;.enable_unicode 1;.ignore_missing_pages 1;.logopen /t C:\Users\jasone\Logs\debug.log;aS .p .process /p /r; aS .t .thread /p /r; aS !p !process; aS !t !thread; aS .f .frame; aS dv dv /V /i /t; aS .f .frame"
What does this do?
Launches the debugger, attaches to dump file, NO prompt to save workspace settings, Open my "Internal" workspace (a named workspace I created), and run these commands to load debugger extensions, setup preferences, and create aliases that make my life easier.
This worked for me to dock the command window by default:
Open WinDbg. Do not open a dump file. Just open the app.
Click the menu View - Command
Click the menu Window - Dock All
Click the menu File - Save Workspace
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I need to debug a program on a server and would like to still have its output in GDB.
The following "works" in general:
manual started (terminal) task that opens a ssh connection, does the necessary pre-setup (server-side scripts), then runs gdbserver --multi :12345
GDB debug configuration that runs in attach mode and executes the appropriate command chain "set sysroot remote:", "target extended-remote myserver:12345", "set remote exec-file /path/to/myfile", "run"
I know see the program running and stopping on the breakpoint, see the program's output in the integrated terminal and can toggle to the debugging console. But how can I see both the debugging console and the integrated terminal at once?
If somehow possible I'd like to not use an external window for one of those, as there are multiple vscode instances open - each connecting to a different server - and multiple windows "mgically" belonging to each other would make debugging harder together - the integrated option solves this problem completely.
The Views and Panels (Problems - Terminal - Output - Debug console) can be moved.
Click on the header/Tab of the View/Panel and drag the mouse to the new location.
The mouse pointer will change if it is possible to drop it.
You can restore a panel/view to the original location from the context menu on the top-bar.
I have looked in the doc but could not find any mentioning of this. It was mentioned in one of the Release notes.
I use VSCode's remote development extension fairly regularly. I can use the terminal in VS Code as if it were on my own machine, and even the code command works correctly. That is, when I'm in a remote VSCode session, I can type code path/to/some/file and it will open another editor tab with that file. The terminal session and the file being opened are on the remote machine to which I've connected.
I have VSCode installed on the remote machine, and the code executable is in my PATH. So my question is, how is this functionality implemented behind the scenes? That is, how does VSCode know that when I type code path/to/some/file it should open that file into another editor tab on my machine instead of trying to fire up VSCode on the remote machine?
Literally seconds after I wrote the question I found the answer.
If I run which code in the terminal, it doesn't resolve to the usual VSCode executable, but instead it resolves to one located at $HOME/.vscode-server/bin/a5d1cc28bb5da32ec67e86cc50f84c67cc690321/bin/code.
If I echo $PATH I can see that $HOME/.config/bin and $HOME/.vscode-server/bin/a5d1cc28bb5da32ec67e86cc50f84c67cc690321/bin has been appended to the beginning of the PATH env var that my bash profile generates.
I assume this means that VSCode is executing bash with a different profile script that
Sources my usual bash profile
Creates the directories above and copies some helper programs into them
Modifies my path to include these directories
I also assume that the injected code executable is communicating with my local instance of VSCode in some way, instructing it to open the file in its editor.
The integrated terminal in VS code means that you can run builds, scripts and other commands and see the results as is. Sometimes though they produce output files that you'd like to view in an editor, like a logfile or exception trace.
Is there a way of running a built-in command in the terminal to say 'please open this file in vscode', specifically in a codespace? On macOS, you might use 'open' or 'start' on Windows, but this only works if your codespace is hosted on the same machine that you're browsing to.
It would be great if there was a command that could be run that would open up the corresponding file in vscode, such that you could set the VIEW or EDITOR environment variables and have such operations edit in the file itself. Then (for example) running git in the integrated terminal would open a new vscode editor for writing the git message, instead of the default vi/emacs/notepad/edit.com/pico/nano.
Yes you can. Use the command:
code filename
Or, if you are running an early release (or GitHub codespaces):
code-insiders filename
Each time I restart my computer, I have to rebuild all my AHK Scripts so the keyboard shortcuts will work.
For instance, I have a script that assigns Ctrl+j to set up an instance of the MEAN stack and open my web site. After restarting my computer, pressing ^j does nothing until I go into Sublime and ^b (Build). I could build from AHK, but I do a lot of work in Sublime, so it's easier to build there.
How can my AHK Scripts automatically build on startup?
What I've tried so far:
Looking to build a post startup, startup script: This Is concerned with using an AHK script to start many programs on starup. I use Windows' Task Manager > Startup to do this, thus has nothing to do with making. I want to not have to rebuild all my scripts after every restart.
Windows 10 - run script on windows startup problem: This assumes the start script is already written and implemented. However, it doesn't appear to give the script.
AutoHotKey FAQ: I eventually found a solution here, but it took a long time to dig through the questions so I figured I'd post a question anyway to help others who run into this.
Simply add a shortcut (don't need to be the actual file) of your script in the Windows 'Startup' folder.
Three ways to get there:
1- In Windows Explorer, go to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (for current user startup list) or %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (for every user startup list)
or
2- Open Windows' Run application (Windows + r) write shell:startup (current user) or shell:common startup (every user) in the edit field and click on the 'ok' button.
or
3- Start > Programs > Startup (old Windows versions)
In AutoHotKey you can access this folder with the Built-in Variables %A_Startup% (current user) or %A_StartupCommon% (every user)
To create the (current user) shortcut automatically from your script, use the following line:
FileCreateShortcut, %A_ScriptFullPath%, %A_Startup%\shortcutname.lnk
To do the same for all users, use this line instead:
FileCreateShortcut, %A_ScriptFullPath%, %A_StartupCommon%\shortcutname.lnk
(in the case of having a file with the same name in the folder, the file would be overwritten)
ps: Win10 blocks scripts in startup with AHK running as admin... read the comments of this post for extra info.
Run at startup in Windows 10:
Compile the script to *.exe
Put the shortcut of that exe in startup folder "%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup"
That's all. Do NOT set it to run as admin. Programs in Win10 don't run at startup which are marked as run as admin.
Run Script as admin at Startup in Windows 10:
Go to ahk script and mark it run as admin.
Create the VBScript using a text editor
'put it in startup folder to run the mentioned ahk script at startup
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell" )
WshShell.Run """C:\Users\jerry\Downloads\scripts\some_script.ahk""", 0 'Must quote command if it has spaces; must escape quotes
Set WshShell = Nothing
Replace C:\Users\jerry\Downloads\scripts\some_script.ahk with the path to your script with extension and save it as .vbs.
Place this .vbs script at startup folder %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
PS: My fav AHK scripts: https://gourav.io/blog/autohotkey-scripts-windows
Open note pad or any other text editor
write Start "" "C:\ahk\yourdirectory\yourahk.ahk"
press save as
navigate to %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup
name the filename anything.bat
As a Windows 7 user, I have limited experience with Windows 10. I have heard that W10 can be finicky with regard to running programs underground administratie or limited user. In W7, you just add the .AHK file link to the startup dir.
A simple solution without writing any code, using the Windows Task Scheduler, set the script to start when the user logs on. If it is set to system startup it will error because it is too early.
To allow the script to automate administrative programs without running as admin, here're the required steps:
When installing AHK, check the "Add 'Run with UI Access' to context menus" option.
After installation, find AutoHotkeyU64_UIA.exe on your disk.
Open the .ahk script's properties, change the "Open with" option to the AutoHotkeyU64_UIA.exe you just found.
Create a shortcut to this script.
Open %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup in the file explorer.
Move that shortcut to this folder.
And you're done.
How does it work?
The "Add 'Run with UI Access' to context menus" option provides a workaround for common UAC-related issues by allowing the script to automate administrative programs without running as admin.
Reference: Run with UI Access.
Open windows run (win+r) and type “shelll:startup”
Copy paste the ahk file into there
Close the folder
And that‘s all!
My company provides an eclipse based development environment which needs some environment variables setting up for the underlying toolchain so multiple versions can be installed concurrently and not take over the system.
I want to provide an icon in finder or the dock which sets these then launches eclipse so customers cannot accidentally launch eclipse without the environment being set. This is what I have tried so far:
Setting environment in Info.plist
for eclipse:
This should be a nice way to do it
but I cannot make it add to the
existing path (like export
PATH=/myapp/bin:$PATH).
bash script wrapping eclipse:
I created a bash script called
eclipse.command to set the
environment then launch eclipse.
This opens a terminal window as well
as the eclipse icon and allows
people to "Keep on dock" for the
bare eclipse. I cannot put
eclipse.command on the dock as it is
not an application.
Applescript wrapping eclipse.command:
An Applescript wrapper around
eclipse.command makes it look like
an app and prevents the terminal
window appearing. Unfortunately I
now get a dock icon for the
applescript and one for eclipse so
can still keep the bare eclipse on
the dock.
Any suggestions? Am I going about this in completely the wrong way?
There is an alternate solution which involves replacing the executable that is run by MacOS X when the user launches the Eclipse application with a shell wrapper that sets up the environment.
Create an empty text file called "eclipse.sh" in the Eclipse application bundle directory /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS.
Open the eclipse.sh in a text editor an enter the following contents:
#!/bin/sh
export ENV_VAR1=value
export ENV_VAR2=value
logger "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse"
exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse" $#
In the example ENV_VAR1 and ENV_VAR2 are the environment variables being set up. These variables will be visible to processes launched from within Eclipse. The logger command will just log the path of the eclipse executable to the system.log as a debugging aid.
In the Terminal set the executable flag of the shell script eclipse.sh, i.e.:
chmod +x /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.sh
Open the Eclipse.app Info.plist and change the value for the key CFBundleExecutable from eclipse to eclipse.sh.
MacOS X does not automatically detect that the Eclipse.app's Info.plist has changed. Therefore you need to force update the LaunchService database in the Terminal by using the lsregister command:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app
The next time you launch Eclipse.app from the Dock or from the Finder the environment variables should be set.
I created the following:
alias start-eclipse='open /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app'
If you run start-eclipse from the command line, all env vars will be picked up. This way, you only need to maintain a single set of env vars across both command-line and eclipse environments.
Take a look at a related question: Environment variables in Mac OS X.
Basically, this involves the creation of a ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist file.
Log out and Log in for the environment.plist to get picked up by .App's
This worked perfectly in OS X Yosemite:
Open /Applications/Automator.
When the drop-down appears asking you what kind of document you want to create, choose "Application."
In the second-from-the-left list, double-click "Run Shell Script."
In the right side delete the "cat" that gets put there automatically, and replace it with this:
source ~/.bash_profile && /Applications/eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse
Now go to File->Save, and save the application to your Applications directory. I named it "Eclipse" with a capital 'E' so as not to conflict with the "eclipse" directory I already had. For good measure, you can even give it the Eclipse icon by selecting the real eclipse app, pressing command-i, selecting the icon, pressing command-c, then selecting the automator "Eclipse" app, pressing command-i, selecting the icon, and pressing command-v.
Now you can open the app, or even drag it to your dock. Note that if you start it, the "real" eclipse will still show up in your dock as a separate icon, but you can't have everything. :)
sakra's answer above is awesome, except is doesn't automatically inherit your existing bash environment. To ensure eclipse.sh picks up your existing bash environment, modify eclipse.sh to use bash instead of sh and add a line to source your existing ~/.bash_profile thus:
#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_profile
logger "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse"
exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse" $#
None of the above worked for me. you have to set Eclipse -> Preferences -> Terminal -> Arguments set to --login
That will instruct Eclipse to login with your account just after opening Terminal.
See screenshot:
Reference: https://marketplace.eclipse.org/comment/4259#comment-4259
Link to Eclipse doesn't use the path set in .bashrc
Create simple script
#!/bin/bash
source /home/user/.environment_variables
/home/user/eclipse_cpp/eclipse -Duser.name="My Name"
2.
Next put your all system variables in file /home/user/.environment_variables (any file you want)
My looks like:
export COCOS_ROOT=/home/user/Projects/edukoala
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/
3.
Now you can delete your variables in .bashrc and put line
source /home/user/.environment_variables
Everything works fine :)
As pointed out in https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/7045, the environment variables can be loaded automatically, without explicit source ~/.bash_profile by using
#!/usr/bin/env bash -l
instead of
#!/bin/bash
source ~/.bash_profile
after that, in both cases, follows
exec "`dirname \"$0\"`/eclipse" $#
It works great for me, thanks for all previous work.
After setting env variables in .bash_profile.
Simply open the application through terminal!
open /Application/{path/to/app}.app