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Naveed Rasheed
Naveed Rasheed

Reputation: 79

Unable to start debugging. No terminal is available to launch the debugger. Please install Gnome Terminal or XTerm

I am trying to debug simple hello world using visual studio code. How can set terminal path in my debugger settings file? I am using following settings.

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "C++ Launch (GDB)",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "launchOptionType": "Local",
            "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
            "targetArchitecture": "x64",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/hello.out",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": true,
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "environment": [],
            "externalConsole": true
        },
        {
            "name": "C++ Attach (GDB)",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "launchOptionType": "Local",
            "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
            "targetArchitecture": "x64",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/hello.out",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": true,
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
            "environment": [],
            "processId": "enter program's process ID",
            "externalConsole": true
        }
    ]
}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3318

Answers (3)

SD Asif Hossein
SD Asif Hossein

Reputation: 1

If you are reading this, please note bash, zsh, fish, starship etc are cli tools not terminal emulators. Go to VS Code > Settings > Terminal External and change it to a terminal emulators like XTerm, Konsole, Gnome-Terminal. bash, zsh etc. won't work as they just read/write to stdin/stdout and emulate commands. Terminal Emulators complete the interface by providing stdin/stdout and probably stderr to the cli-tools. Peace.

Upvotes: 0

Sacha Refshauge
Sacha Refshauge

Reputation: 1

Create this /usr/bin/xterm script:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/konsole -e 'bash -c "$6"'

Works fine in VSCode. A symlink won't work because of the quoting.

Upvotes: 0

Marek Mosna
Marek Mosna

Reputation: 21

The fix is easy, open up a terminal and type the following commands:

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s ./{your_terminal} xterm

Upvotes: 2

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