Avoid closing window when close last tab.

[aixfox]

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Avoid closing window when close last tab.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Keep terminal window when 0 tabs exist, not be concern about the last tab how to be closed.

Features/News/Terminal list, are good contents in the empty window view.

Like Firefox/Chrome/ConEmu which is popular tab manager does.

[electronic-dk]

I believe this issue covers exactly this

[aixfox]

I believe this issue covers exactly this

Same proposal in a sense.

But views of #4579 #2976 #627 are tabs, not window, they are different concepts. Behavior confirm or prevent of tabs are meaningless.

[zadjii-msft]

I actually don't hate this. But we'd probably need to get something like #3586 in first, so that we could just re-use that UI as the "pick a profile" UI.

[WSLUser]

I expect the window to close when there is only one tab open and I close it (the last tab as I see it). I have no idea what would still show in the window if there are 0 tabs, perhaps a black empty space that supports no input other than opening a new tab via drop-down menu? This doesn't seem all that useful to me and actually a deterrent. I wouldn't close Terminal without good reason, such as a reboot or adding a WSL distro since we're still waiting for support on hot-loading distros that are added to the profile list (and appearing in the drop-down menu.) If this "feature" is added, I recommend it be disabled by default and be explicitly turned on in settings.json under "defaults".

[aixfox]

I expect the window to close when there is only one tab open and I close it (the last tab as I see it). I have no idea what would still show in the window if there are 0 tabs, perhaps a black empty space that supports no input other than opening a new tab via drop-down menu? This doesn't seem all that useful to me and actually a deterrent. I wouldn't close Terminal without good reason, such as a reboot or adding a WSL distro since we're still waiting for support on hot-loading distros that are added to the profile list (and appearing in the drop-down menu.) If this "feature" is added, I recommend it be disabled by default and be explicitly turned on in settings.json under "defaults".

Here is a user story:
Close a tab -> Open other tabs.
If the window is not opened always and the tab closed is the latest, user should do:
Close a tab -> Find "Windows Terminal" application in OS -> Open default tab (default behavoir) -> Open other tabs -> Close unnecessary default tab.

It is confused.

Most browsers/editors/ternimal managers support this requirement, and their blank pages are helpful for what would be rendered in Windows Ternimal with 0 tabs.

[WSLUser]

Browsers are different. I haven't seen a terminal have this feature. Please state precedence (i.e. in VTE/xterm/Iterm2/etc. this works ).

[aixfox]

Browsers are different. I haven't seen a terminal have this feature. Please state precedence (i.e. in VTE/xterm/Iterm2/etc. this works ).

Managers of terminal, not terminal itself.

Here are some products: ConEmu/XShell/Terminus/MobaXterm.

[zadjii-msft]

Browsers are different. I haven't seen a terminal have this feature. Please state precedence (i.e. in VTE/xterm/Iterm2/etc. this works ).

I don't think there needs to be existing precedence for Terminal UI features like this. For something like VT sequence support, sure. However, I like this idea as a differentiating one.

Obviously this would be behind a setting, because most people probably just want the window to close when the last tab is closed, but giving the users the option for this functionality isn't a bad idea.

[WSLUser]

I actually do remember ConEmu having the feature. It was annoying for me and was glad when I could switch to Terminal. I'm glad this wouldn't be the default and instead an explicit setting.

[aixfox]

ok, just a setting feature request.

[DHowett]

This is definitely a duplicate of 4579 (if you read the comments), but this one has more info so I’m closing the other one.

[ndac-todoroki]

I use Konsole when I use Kubuntu, and Konsole has this feature (actually I'm using Yakuake, the quake-typed version of Konsole).
Avoid closing window is great especially on quake mode, where the application should always be alive (so you can show/hide the terminal window by a global hotkey).
Currently there is no quake mode on Windows Terminal, but there are some go-arounds using AutoHotkey, which I am using. The AH script doesn't work when Windows Terminal is closed.

Also, I usually just close the tab when I need to re-login on WSL2. Maybe this isn't the best way to do it?