11.51 Does not respect default terminal application choice

[Klaster_1]

How to reproduce:
1. Have Windows 11 with Windows Terminal (wt)
2. In wt settings, set "Default terminal application" to "Windows Terminal".
3a. In totalcmd, run "Commands \ Open command prompt window"
3b. Open dir context menu by long pressing right mouse button with left shift held down. Choose "Open PowerShell window here".

What happens:
cmd.exe is opened for both scenarios.

Expected:
Windows Terminal is opened.

Notes:
I expect totalcmd to respect my system preferences. I don't want to mess with comspec, launch scripts, which doesn't even help completely - it works for scenario 3a, but not 3b (still opens cmd).

[white]

I expect totalcmd to respect my system preferences.

Are you saying it works differently when using the right-click menu in Explorer?

[ghisler(Author)]

3a opens the shell set in the COMSPEC environment variable.
3b is handled by Windows itself, I don't have any influence on it.

[Klaster_1]

3a opens the shell set in the COMSPEC environment variable.

That's an implementation detail. As a user, I expect for this to do what I setup in my OS, where have "Window Terminal" set under OS setting "System \ For developers \ Terminal". Why would I care about COMSPEC if Windows lets me configure this in Settings?

3b is handled by Windows itself, I don't have any influence on it.

Then how come Explorer opens wt from the same action and tc opens cmd? Surely there's something amiss in how TC triggers the menu, maybe there's an API call parameter that TC doesn't handle because the default terminal setting was added so recently?

What's the chance that Windows introduced this setting a while ago and totalcmd just needs to use it? Does it check contents of "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Console\%%Startup"? Maybe do that and update COMSPEC in-process to point to the "wt"?

[white]

2Klaster_1
I guess you are running TC as Administrator?

[Klaster_1]

2Klaster_1
I guess you are running TC as Administrator?

Wow, that indeed was the case! Now both scenarios launch Windows Terminal, thank you so much I really tried to figure this out myself before creating a thread, but found nothing relevant besides COMSPEC hacks.

[ghisler(Author)]

Moderator message from: ghisler(Author) » 2025-06-29, 07:52 UTC

Moved to English forum