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FluffySheep1990
FluffySheep1990

Reputation: 441

Unable to use terminal after launching VSCode

I've just got a new laptop (Windows 11), so I've had to re-install all of my software applications.

After installing Ubuntu 20.04 and VS Code, I'm now running into a problem. When running code . from the Ubuntu terminal VS Code opens, but I'm no longer able to use the Ubuntu terminal whilst VS Code is open.

This never happened on my old laptop, and it's annoying that I have to close VS Code every time I want to run git add or pip install.

I've added VS Code to PATH in my environment variables, and I've tried comparing the launch settings.json between my old and new laptop but nothing leaps out as impacting the terminal.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 215

Answers (1)

carlfriedrich
carlfriedrich

Reputation: 4019

You have two options:

  1. Add a trailing & to the call to start VS Code as a background process:

    code . &

  2. Use VS Code's integrated terminal via the top menu Terminal -> New Terminal.

Upvotes: 1

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