Opening from terminal creates lots of icons in app switcher (MacOS)

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• VSCode Version: 1.52.1
• OS Version: MacOS 11.1

Steps to Reproduce:

But:

• There really is just one window.
• If I select one of the icons (any of them) and quit the corresponding app, all icons disappear, so they all belong to the same app.
• This is an app switcher, not a window switcher. One app => one icon.

It seems to me that "waiting processes" are created and are taken to be different running apps. If this is on purpose it looks and behaves really weird. And there is one thing that is certainly wrong: after killing all waiting terminal jobs, the icons are still there.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

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@bpasero could you provide a link to the report this one duplicates, as is standard practice, so I can track its advance? I don't want to sound harsh but it's the first time in many many years that I get an issue closed as duplicate without a link to the duplicated issue, it's pretty rude. I've been searching for variations of "macos wait app switcher" and I found neither open nor closed related issues. Maybe there is one and I'm I failing to find it, but part of doing triage is reporting duplicates and I did my best to properly report the issue following your guidelines.

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Ok, I found #60579 and I assume this is the "original" you're thinking of.

Anyway it's not a duplicate because that refers to multiple icons in the dock, but I'm talking also about multiple icons in the app switcher.