visual-studio-code - How do i open a local terminal from a remote session in VScode?

Question

When i open my workspace in VScode i go directly into my SSH work area, which is what i want. But i want to have a split terminal with access to both my SSH-work area and a terminal for my local computer, but i cant access the local one without making an explicitly new terminal from the dropdown window. And if i try to split the new local terminal i get the error "The terminal shell CWD "/Users/asd/work/" does not exist" as if its being looked for in my SSH work directory. Is there any way of specifying the default terminal to be on my local computer? If i do so in the terminal preferences in VScode i get the CWD-error on startup instead.

Answer 1

This should have been resolved with microsoft/vscode-remote-release issue 1479

Both of you don't have C:\Windows\System32 on your path, I don't understand why that is.

But I will change this to not rely on the PATH.

Even if this was for Windows originally, opening a local shell, (Mac or Windows) should now be possible while having a remote session.

Wtih ctrl+shift+p or cmd+shift+p(Command Palette), you have:

Terminal: Create New Integrated Terminal (local)

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Bonus, with VSCode 1.53 (Jan. 2021), there is now:

Remote layout persistence

Terminal layout is restored on remote terminal reconnection. In the video below, the terminal layout is restored when reloading VS Code and reconnecting to a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) remote instance.