Intellij Windows Terminal as terminal (in ide)

Question

I use WSL with Ubuntu 18.04.

In Intellij i want to change terminal to Windows Terminal (or Ubuntu Terminal), but when I add wt.exe as shell path (File -> Settings -> Tools -> Terminal), ide returns new window with Windows Terminal (not on the bottom of ide).

I also used Windows Terminal.exe path, but it doesn't work.

C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe/wt.exe

Answer 1

You can't use GUI app as the terminal shell in IntelliJ IDEA, use the command line app like cmd.exe, powershell.exe or c:\Windows\System32\bash.exe.

Answer 2

Now you can use WSL terminal inside the IDE by just using the wsl.exe string in the terminal settings of your IntelliJ IDEA as the documentation describes:

Shell path
Specify the shell that will run by default. Here are some examples of different shells:

• Bash: /bin/bash
• Z shell: /bin/zsh
• Bash for Windows: bash.exe
• WSL: wsl.exe
• PowerShell: powershell
• Command Prompt: cmd.exe
• Cygwin: "C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i