Start New Tabs in New Machine Context #6138

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opened 2026-01-31 00:30:47 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @rkitover on GitHub (Jan 26, 2020).

Currently new tabs launch in the context of the terminal process, so if for example you change a machine scope environment variable, the change will not be effective in a new tab.

Having child shell processes start in machine scope would be more like the behavior the user would expect. For example, the user installs a chocolatey package which adds an entry to machine scope PATH, and a new shell would have the modifications so that utilities could be run from that PATH entry.

Originally created by @rkitover on GitHub (Jan 26, 2020). Currently new tabs launch in the context of the terminal process, so if for example you change a machine scope environment variable, the change will not be effective in a new tab. Having child shell processes start in machine scope would be more like the behavior the user would expect. For example, the user installs a chocolatey package which adds an entry to machine scope PATH, and a new shell would have the modifications so that utilities could be run from that PATH entry.
claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 00:30:47 +00:00
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Reference: starred/terminal#6138