Administrator and normal user tabs in the same window #19334

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opened 2026-01-31 06:40:26 +00:00 by claunia · 4 comments
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Originally created by @WillPittenger on GitHub (Feb 6, 2023).

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In a normal WT window, if you open a profile that requires Administrator privileges, WT opens a new window. If you then try to open a non-Admin profile, it becomes Admin too. Now contrast that with Konsole over in KDE. It can have Super User and normal user tabs in the same window. I'm guessing some of that is due to OS differences, but I still see improvements as needed.

(I debated creating this as a bug as the new profile might not have been a trusted program.)

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@237dmitry commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023):

Screenshot 2023-02-07 094620

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@237dmitry commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023): ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 094620](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/78153320/217168765-c89f6039-c76a-410a-85b5-95984c7ceb53.png) ![Screenshot 2023-02-07 095450](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/78153320/217170236-51a22b6f-f1ff-467f-8242-6d29fe9dde45.png)
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@lhecker commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023):

Hey, thank you for the feature request!

But unfortunately, this isn't something that's going to be possible any time soon. See this post for more details. There's more summary in #5000 as well. There's a slight chance that this might be possible one day, but it's far from trivial for us to add as a feature.

/dup #1032

@lhecker commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023): Hey, thank you for the feature request! But unfortunately, this isn't something that's going to be possible any time soon. See [this post](https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/Niksa.md?rgh-link-date=2022-03-09T11%3A04%3A02Z#elevation) for more details. There's more summary in #5000 as well. There's a slight chance that this might be possible one day, but it's far from trivial for us to add as a feature. /dup #1032
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@microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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@microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@microsoft-github-policy-service[bot] commented on GitHub (Feb 7, 2023): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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Reference: starred/terminal#19334