Start New Tabs in New Machine Context #6141

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opened 2026-01-31 00:30:50 +00:00 by claunia · 2 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 00:30:50 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2020):

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm pretty sure this is work that's actually tracked by #1125, though that title is certainly confusing.

/dup #1125

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2020): Thanks for the suggestion! I'm pretty sure this is work that's actually tracked by #1125, though that title is certainly confusing. /dup #1125
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2020):

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!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2020): 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#6141