Shortcut to wt

[tfiers]

I used to be able to make shortcuts to open wt.
This was useful as you could give these shortcuts arguments (like launching a certain profile, wt -p ..), and put them wherever, like in the Startup directory of Windows. One use case: open a wt instance running a Jupyter Notebook server on boot.

Now all I can do is open this generic looking 'App' without icon, and I cannot make shortcuts to it:

wt version 1.12.10982.0, win build 10.0.19043.0

[zadjii-msft]

You can still do that? It might just show up as "Terminal", not "Windows Terminal"

#12344 is similar, I coulda swore there was a PT specific version of this laying around somewhere...

[tfiers]

There doesn't seem to be an option to create a shortcut (eg desktop shortcut):

("Share" is just for copying a link to wt in Microsoft Store).

this "Packaged application" thing is a regrettable move away from file-based computing and end-user customizability

[zadjii-msft]

Editorialization aside, you can always just make a plain old shortcut to wt.exe manually:

That's a shortcut on my desktop that runs wt with a whole pile of subcommands to open a bunch of profiles. And sure enough, PT Run can find it:

[tfiers]

awesome, thanks for the prompt replies and solution!

[tfiers]

And yeah my apologies, I'll try to stick to facts and no opinions :p

[tfiers]

Trying to find wt.exe, found something interesting:

• The background explorer window is the actual location and version of wt (what I find if I search Start for wt.exe).
• The foreground explorer window is what I get if I click "open containing folder" on Windows Terminal in PowerTools Run.

..but interestingly, just clicking that entry in PT Run does open the correct/newest version (1.12).
So yeah might indeed be a PT Run issue.
Also possibly related to the "explorer caches the names" comment in the issue you linked.

(It was the fact that the right folder was empty that got me frustrated: "where are my files! Do new-style Apps hide them?" -- But turns out it's all still there, phew).

[jacob-pro]

Unfortunately manually creating a shortcut also leads to a bug, when you pin the shortcut to taskbar, and open it, for some reason Windows associates it as a separate entry on the taskbar

(Left is the created shortcut to wt.exe, Right is what shows up after you click it)

I would really like to be able to create shortcuts with custom starting directories, in order to fix this: #13195

[zadjii-msft]

Well good news on that front - at least that bug seems to have been fixed by the taskbar team in Windows 11 builds:

(it's also possible you might not be able to stick lnk's in the taskbar anymore. I'm not super familiar with how it works).

Regardless, the root question seems answered here, and most of the follow ups seem like good requests for the Taskbar team. I'd file those via Feedback hub. Thanks!