Terminals are named kernel_task

[jrieken]

• Use insiders-1.78 or run out of source
• start a terminal
• the name is "kernel_task"
• start a long running task, like yarn watch, press ctrl+c and see it's not terminating

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[zt123123]

same question

[shealan]

Same issue on my brand new Apple M2 Mac Mini. Running latest Insiders. I thought I was going crazy.

[hawkkiller]

Works fine on latest version of insiders.

[shealan]

Yeah fixed now. Thanks everybody!

[gitSambhal]

Not working for me. I am using CTRL+Z

[pramod1221]

Not working for me after updating today (May 09, 2023)

Version: 1.78.0 (Universal)
Commit: 252e546
Date: 2023-05-03T20:11:00.813Z
Electron: 22.4.8
Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
Node.js: 16.17.1
V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0
Sandboxed: Yes

[pschmidtke]

Not working for me. I am using CTRL+Z

That doesn't kill the process. It just suspends it. Just be aware of that (if you do it a lot ;)

[avi-l]

same for me, no control-c or any kill commands will work:
Version: 1.78.1
Commit: 6a995c4
Date: 2023-05-04T09:57:42.343Z (5 days ago)
Electron: 22.5.1
Chromium: 108.0.5359.215
Node.js: 16.17.1
V8: 10.8.168.25-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 18.7.0
Sandboxed: No

[gitSambhal]

It stopped working for me due to an extension which had created a key binding starting with ctrl + c so I removed the key binding and it started working. This SO answer helped me.

[Tyriar]

@gitSambhal what extension was causing the issue?

[gitSambhal]

@Tyriar I forgot the name but you can check your keyboard bindings.

[Tyriar]

@gitSambhal I don't have the same extensions as you?

[loicguichaoua]

Hi, this "Ctrl+C" (terminate task) feature suddenly stopped working a few days ago for us as well:

• the "^C" still displays in the terminal but without any effect
• and there is not a single shortcut associated to Ctrl+C and no way to add one

This is a huge pain as we simply cannot work anymore using vs-code, this was such a central feature
There is just so much content on the topic online, yet no simple solution:

• What happened? Why did vs-code team do this?
• How is there not a simple option in Keyboard Shortcuts (JSON) to add it back?

Thanks in advance to those currently working on a solution

[gitSambhal]

@Tyriar what is shown in the vscode status bar when you press ctrl + c ?

[Tyriar]

@loicguichaoua it was a bug we introduced and fixed shortly afterwards, see #181939. One of the downsides of using Insiders is occasionally things like this slip in.

[atabv]

Never knew I was on those buggy Insiders builds. Hot damn. You need better wording on your main site.

In any case, there is still no fix for this for Insiders and I am not really looking forward to installing and setting everything up from scratch with Universal.