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Opening a new terminal inside WSL session opens a Windows shell instead

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Description

Feature summary

When I'm inside WSL session (I know it's a preview) when I open terminal I should have terminal in the same environment. Right now it opens a terminal on windows so the terminal is disconnected from the session and I can't use certain tooling as if it's from inside WSL

What problem are you trying to solve?

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Proposed solution

When interacting with terminal from inside the WSL session, the whol env should be WSL including a starting host for LLM chat as well as terminal and possibly other tools

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the behavior from a WSL session and trace how the app opens a terminal; done means the terminal, LLM chat host, and any explicitly supported tools stay in the WSL environment, with the intended scope clarified.

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Assessment

Tech stack
linux
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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