Add openning tabs with Admin Rights from dropdown menu #9063

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opened 2026-01-31 01:45:04 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @VidathD on GitHub (Jun 16, 2020).

Make it so that we can open a terminal tab with admin privileges from the dropdown menu.

When you open the drop-down menu,

  1. You get a drop-down list where it is alternating as normal and admin. It would be great if you can make it so we can enable/disable this in settings as some may find this interfering. For example

Windows Power Shell
Administrator: Windows Power Shell

  1. When you click on a selection of the drop-down menu holding, for example, Shift a terminal with admin privileges open.
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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-31 01:45:04 +00:00
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@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2020):

To support this, we'd need to first support opening new instances elevated 😉. A bunch of this work is being tracked in #5000, #1032, #1490, #632. I bet once #632 and #1571 are both implemented, you could manually add entries to the new tab dropdown for { "action":"openTab", "elevated":true } or something similar (depending on how #632 shakes out).

For now, I'm gonna close this as a combo dupe of those two. Thanks!

/dup #632 #1571

@zadjii-msft commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 2020): To support this, we'd need to first support opening new instances elevated 😉. A bunch of this work is being tracked in #5000, #1032, #1490, #632. I bet once #632 and #1571 are both implemented, you could manually add entries to the new tab dropdown for `{ "action":"openTab", "elevated":true }` or something similar (depending on how #632 shakes out). For now, I'm gonna close this as a combo dupe of those two. Thanks! /dup #632 #1571
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Jun 16, 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 (Jun 16, 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#9063