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Customizing right-click context menu "open Windows terminal here" for Cygwin (and other) profile #18895

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opened 2026-01-31 06:27:30 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
claunia commented 2026-01-31 06:27:30 +00:00
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Originally created by @CC-Hsu on GitHub (Nov 14, 2022).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Hi, Team,

Microsoft Terminal supports customizing profile and Cygwin is one of supported configuration.

However, currently right-click context menu "open Windows terminal here" (my environment: Windows10) does not work great with Cygwin since Cygwin recoginzes Unix-like path expression.

In Cygwin, one can execute cygpath -u "Windows Full Directory Path Name" to map to the corresponding representation, and cd $(cygpath -u 'Windows Full Directory Path Name') to open Cygwin in the desired directory.

As far as I know, one can adjust from RegEdit, but it requires in-depth knowledge about RegEdit and search for right config to edit.

So it would be helpful if Microsoft Terminal Can support customizing right-click context menu command, supporting passing full Windows directory path as variable for customized command.

Besides, I find there are some similar feature requests about WSL environment #12961, I guess similar trick may also works for WSL, too.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Adding a new profile key/value for customizing "right-click context menu" action (in the following setting page screenshot), and provide some shortcut that represents directory path for substitute.
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Best Regards.

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