Terminal Issues

Terminal Issues

This document is about reporting issues for the integrated terminal (ctrl+`). Learn more about how to use the terminal in the documentation.

Common questions

Make sure you read over the common questions section on the website.

Enabling logging

For some terminal issues it's useful to get logs, this can reveal at what point something is failing. Follow these steps to get the logs:

1. Close all VS Code windows
2. Launch VS Code from the terminal using code --log trace
3. At this point you should reproduce the termnial issue you're having
4. Run the command "Developer: Open Log File..." (F1 opened command palette) to get an editor containing the logs

Long standing known issues

Here are some long standing known issues in the terminal:

• Various emulation issues on Windows #45693
• Terminal does not show any text on Windows 7 #43169
  • Try turning off compatibility mode
• Characters like underscore are being cut off #35901
  • Try changing the terminal.integrated.fontFamily
• Emojis are printed as double width but are single width xtermjs/xterm.js#1059