bug(terminal-preview): terminal opens multiple instances on launch

[vipexv]

Windows Terminal version

1.23.10353.0

Windows build number

10.0.26100.0

Other Software

No response

Steps to reproduce

Open the Terminal.

Expected Behavior

Expected behavior is for it to only open 1 instance not multiple.

Actual Behavior

Everytime i launch the terminal, it seems to open multiple instances, and this only happens on the preview version.

Also everytime i open it through the context menu it opens 3, so 1 of them is usually in the correct path and the rest are always opened in root.

[FlyMandi]

I'm also on 1.23.10353.0 and have noticed this exact behaviour. This has only started happening with the most recent version and "firstWindowPreference": "defaultProfile" is set, so it's not that.

Additionally, when starting other applications, such as SKSE, two default profile and default location terminal preview windows open, when previously none did.

[carlos-zamora]

Thanks for filing! Looks like the persisted window layout is stored without any tabs. And even though firstWindowPreference is set to defaultProfile, we're still creating new tabs on launch!

We should take a look at how other tabbed applications handle storing state and a similar setting (open previous session).

Discussion topic: consider adding another setting to clarify if we want the last closed window to be stored