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Remote terminals don't resolve variables when restored on startup

See original GitHub issue

Issue Type: Bug

I changed my Terminal->Integrated: Cwd setting to “$(workspaceFolder)”. Now, when Code starts up, the Terminal does not open, and I get a notification: “The terminal shell CWD “/home/gpudb/gpudb-dev-7.0/gpudb-core/gaiadb-cluster/${workspaceFolder}” does not exist”. This happens every time I launch Code.

However, once Code has loaded, I can then do Ctrl-` to open a Terminal window, and it works as expected (also every time). Note that this is doing Remote development (so the Terminal is opening a session on my remote machine).

I suspect the issue is that Code is trying to start the Terminal before $workspaceFolder is set, but it is set later, when I manually open the Terminal. It is a fairly easy work-around, but am reporting it in case this is not the expected behavior.

VS Code version: Code 1.38.1 (b37e54c98e1a74ba89e03073e5a3761284e3ffb0, 2019-09-11T13:35:15.005Z) OS version: Windows_NT x64 10.0.18362 Remote OS version: Linux x64 4.15.0-62-generic

System Info

Item	Value
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8 x 2592)
GPU Status	2d_canvas: enabled flash_3d: enabled flash_stage3d: enabled flash_stage3d_baseline: enabled gpu_compositing: enabled multiple_raster_threads: enabled_on native_gpu_memory_buffers: disabled_software oop_rasterization: disabled_off protected_video_decode: unavailable_off rasterization: enabled skia_deferred_display_list: disabled_off skia_renderer: disabled_off surface_synchronization: enabled_on video_decode: enabled viz_display_compositor: disabled_off webgl: enabled webgl2: enabled
Load (avg)	undefined
Memory (System)	15.76GB (7.51GB free)
Process Argv
Screen Reader	no
VM	0%

Item	Value
Remote	SSH: andy-linux
OS	Linux x64 4.15.0-62-generic
CPUs	Intel® Core™ i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz (8 x 900)
Memory (System)	62.86GB (6.62GB free)
VM	0%

Extensions (20)

Extension	Author (truncated)	Version
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remote-containers	ms-	0.74.0
remote-ssh	ms-	0.46.1
remote-ssh-edit	ms-	0.46.1
remote-ssh-explorer	ms-	0.46.1
remote-wsl	ms-	0.39.5
vscode-remote-extensionpack	ms-	0.17.0
vs-keybindings	ms-	0.2.0
code-gnu-global	aus	0.2.2
githistory	don	0.4.6
mssql	ms-	1.6.0
cpptools	ms-	0.25.1
java	red	0.49.0
vscodeintellicode	Vis	1.1.9
vscode-java-debug	vsc	0.21.0
vscode-java-dependency	vsc	0.5.1
vscode-java-pack	vsc	0.8.0
vscode-java-test	vsc	0.19.0
vscode-maven	vsc	0.19.0
gitblame	wad	3.0.1