windows-terminal-quake: windows-terminal-quake doesn't start both the terminal and itself. (exception thrown: process is null)

Hey @flyingpie, thanks a lot for creating this. I was so very happy to find this plugin. I’m sure I will be using this all the time like I did in Cmder.

I’ve downloaded v0.5 (also tried v0.4) and read the readme, but could not find how it is supposed to open both terminal and this plugin at the same time. I had hoped there would be some setting that allows the plugin to start with terminal automatically.

Expected behaviour

Option 1:

  • Open terminal executable
  • See that terminal + quake style plugin work
  • This clearly documented in the readme

Option 2;

  • Open windows-terminal-quake executable
  • See that terminal + quake style plugin work
  • This clearly documented in the readme

Actual behaviour

First scenario worked perfectly;

  • Open terminal
  • Added executable and the config to "C:\Users\(username)\"
  • Open windows-terminal-quake.exe
  • See that it works! awesome.

But now I’d like the plugin to automatically start;

  • Close terminal
  • Open terminal again
  • See that quake style no longer works (which essentially just means that nothing was “installed”)

So I’m thinking perhaps I should just open terminal with the executable;

  • Close terminal
  • Open windows-terminal-quake.exe
  • See a non-maximised terminal window without the plugin enabled.
  • Open windows-terminal-quake.exe again with the window already open
  • See that now it works.

Considered solutions

I tried looking in the following places for clues how to make it work out of the box:

  • The readme of this repository
  • This plugins configuration
  • The configuration file from Terminal

Reason for starting both with 1 executable

  • General convenience
  • Opening it when clicking the terminal tab within an IDE will not work if there are two executable files to be called (I’m looking to replace Cmder now quake style is here for terminal)

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Thanks again for your great work.

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments: 18 (7 by maintainers)

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@webbertakken Thank you! Just merged the PR, so now we should have a version that works for the both of us 😃

https://github.com/flyingpie/windows-terminal-quake/releases/tag/v0.8