How to switch between terminals in Visual Studio Code?

I'm looking to switch between terminals open in visual studio code.

With this "Switch focus between editor and integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code" question I correctly setup the focus, but I would like to switch between terminals, not only from code to terminal.

Is there a way to do it?

Go to File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts or just press Ctrl + k + Ctrl + s.

Then click the icon in upper right corner, it opens keybindings.json file:

Try adding the following two entries to this file:

{
    "key": "ctrl+pagedown",
    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNext",
    "when": "terminalFocus"
},
{
    "key": "ctrl+pageup",
    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious",
    "when": "terminalFocus"
}

> Note: On Mac change ctrl to cmd

Looking deeply I found it:

{
  "key": "shift+cmd+]",
  "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNext",
  "when": "terminalFocus"
}

:)

As of Release 1.56.0, there is inbuilt support for switching terminals in VS Code:

> New keybindings > > The terminal has several new default keybindings this release: > > 1. Move to previous terminal - Ctrl+PageUp (macOS Cmd+Shift+]) > 2. Move to next terminal - Ctrl+PageDown (macOS Cmd+shift+[) > 3. Focus terminal tabs view - Ctrl+Shift+\ (macOS Cmd+Shift+\) - Terminal tabs preview > > As always, these default keybindings can be removed or custom > keybindings can be added via the keybindings system.

alt + up/down left/right arrows to switch between splitted terminals.

If alt unfocuses your terminal and focuses the menu, add this to the settings file

// settings.json
"window.titleBarStyle": "custom",
"window.customMenuBarAltFocus": false

Improving on @Serhii Popov's answer

Use up and down instead of pageup and pagedown

Go to File → Preferences → Keyboard Shortcuts or just press Ctrl + k + Ctrl + s.

Then click the icon in upper right corner to open the keybindings.json file:

Then add the objects below to the array in the file:

[  ...  {    "key": "ctrl+down",    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNext",    "when": "terminalFocus"  },  {    "key": "ctrl+up",    "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious",    "when": "terminalFocus"  }  ...]

Note: On Mac change ctrl to cmd

On Windows

to switch terminal ctrl + ~

to switch back to code editor ctrl + 1

On Windows 10 (not sure about Linux and Mac):

To switch between split terminal windows in Visual Studio Code use

> Alt + Right arrow / Left arrow

Here is my approach, which provides a consistent way of navigating between active terminals as well as jumping between the terminal and editor panes. You can try adding this to your keybindings.json directly but I would recommend you go through the keybinding UI (cmd+K cmd+S on a Mac) so you can review/manage conflicts etc.

With this I can use ctrl+x <arrow direction> to navigate to any visible editor or terminal. Once the cursor is in the terminal section you can use ctrl+x ctrl+up or ctrl+x ctrl+down to cycle through the active terminals (note that moving between on-screen split terminals is done with ctrl+x left or ctrl+x right).

cmd-J is still used to hide/show the terminal pane.

    {
        "key": "ctrl+x right",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNextPane",
        "when": "terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x left",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusPreviousPane",
        "when": "terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x ctrl+down",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusNext",
        "when": "terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x ctrl+up",
        "command": "workbench.action.terminal.focusPrevious",
        "when": "terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x up",
        "command": "workbench.action.navigateUp"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x down",
        "command": "workbench.action.navigateDown"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x left",
        "command": "workbench.action.navigateLeft",
        "when": "!terminalFocus"
    },
    {
        "key": "ctrl+x right",
        "command": "workbench.action.navigateRight",
        "when": "!terminalFocus"
    },

This is a work in progress as I'm trying to mimic my emacs behavior in VS Code, but some key elements are missing, like being able to navigate to a terminal buffer by name (without using a mouse/dropdown). Overall I'm pretty surprised by the poor editor group/pane navigation UX in an otherwise amazing product, but working on getting used to it.

Ctrl+J can toggle(show/hide) the console.