microsoft/sudo

Run "in a new window" option should respect the default terminal app

reynoldskr opened this issue · 2 comments

reynoldskr commented

Sudo for Windows version

1.0.0

Windows build number

26100.1.amd64fre.ge_release.240331-1435

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set sudo to run commands in a new window
  2. Set default terminal to Windows terminal, instead of conhost
  3. Run a command under sudo

Expected Behavior

The new window to spawn using my selected default terminal.

Actual Behavior

The new window is using conhost instead of WT.

zadjii-msft commented

Yea, this one's unfortunate. The OS can't hand off an elevated CLI application to a default terminal app. We're basically tracking that over in /dup microsoft/terminal#10276. (see also microsoft/terminal#10276 (comment)).

Nothing sudo can do about that unfortunately. We just need to wait for the COM team to allow elevated processes to discover Packaged COM servers.

Or you could sudo wt -- {{the commandline you want}}. That's contrived and subject to multiple re-interpretations of your commandline, but it'd probably work 😅

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