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I noticed this, I haven't looked into it at all but wondering whether it's related somehow to
This is a pain, I often restart my server process and I just see this slowly building list of old server processes. I don't need to keep their logs behind, it just clogs the doprdown. <img width="309" alt="Screenshot 2023-02-22 at 8 48 24 pm" src="https://user-"
ignore my last comment... I found the setting Debug › Console: Close On End was 'off' by default. Turning it on resolved the problem
Yea this looks expected since we have a process ID as part of the session name, so they get unique terminals. Could argue we shouldn't... but we do, and I've found it handy on more than one occasion
The problem persists after turning on Debug › Console: Close On End (on version 1.75.1). When the said option is on, the terminal/console pane indeed closes when debug stops, but when I restart the process, the pane re-shows with the "select debug console" dropdown populated with the terminated processes. In any case, the problem surfaced in 1.75.0 so I still think there's a bug (or undocumented fix) that contributes to this issue. May I suggest to re-open the issue?
following up - this is still an issue and there's no fix nor a workaround. Can you please re-open the issue so that someone can give it a second look?
Yep, thanks for the ping. This was hanging out in my notification queue but forgot to reopen it

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