Terminal settings

Select it to enable the new terminal.

Select a prompt style for the new terminal:

• IDE single-line prompt: show the input at the same line as the prompt.

• IDE double-line prompt: show the input below the prompt (default behavior).

• Shell prompt (PS1): use the prompt style configured in your shell.

Specify the working directory where every new shell session should start. By default, it starts in the root directory of the current project.

Specify custom environment variables for every new shell session.

Specify the shell that will run by default. IntelliJ IDEA should automatically detect the default shell based on your environment. 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

Specify the default name for new tabs.

Play the bell sound on various events.

Close the current session when the corresponding process ends (for example, by kill).

Enable the mouse pointer support in the embedded local terminal.

Copy text selected in the terminal to the clipboard.

Paste clipboard contents by clicking the middle mouse button.

Use shell-specific shortcuts instead of IDE shortcuts when the Terminal tool window is active.

Click Configure terminal keybindings to open the Keymap settings page and configure the shortcuts that are available in the Terminal tool window under Plugins | Terminal. For example, Switch Focus to Editor is mapped to Escape by default, which means that if you don't override the IDE shortcuts, Escape will switch focus from the terminal to the editor.

Integrate the terminal with the system shell to properly keep track of your command history for sessions and load a custom config file with required environment variables.

Shell integration works for sh, bash, zsh, and fish shells.

Highlight HTTP links in the terminal and make them clickable.

On macOS, use the Option key as the Meta key.

Detect and highlight commands that can be used as IDE features instead of running them in the terminal and reading console output.

When enabled, instead of pressing Enter, which runs the command in the terminal, press Ctrl+Enter to open the corresponding GUI element. For more information, refer to Run IDE features from the terminal.

Select the shape of the cursor: block, underline, or vertical.

For the Python interpreter being a virtual environment, with this checkbox selected, the virtual environment is automatically activated (activate is performed automatically).