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It's a slow and tedious process, so I created Exterm to streamline this.\n\nExterm adds an item to the explorer/context menu of VS Code. When right-clicking on a directory, it opens the terminal directly in that directory.\n\n## Installation\n\nTo install Exterm, you need to have [VS Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/) installed and follow the steps below:\n\n1. Open VS Code.\n2. Open the extensions menu (Ctrl+Shift+X).\n3. Search for Exterm.\n4. Click Install.\n5. Check the configuration section to configure your preferred terminal.\n\n## Requirements\n\nBy default, Exterm uses the terminal [wezterm](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/), but you can choose from the supported terminals below:\n\n**Linux**\n\n- [wezterm](https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/)\n- [gnome-terminal](https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-terminal/stable/)\n- [konsole](https://konsole.kde.org/)\n- [xfce4-terminal](https://docs.xfce.org/apps/terminal/start)\n- [alacritty](https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty)\n- [kitty](https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty)\n- [kermit](https://github.com/orhun/kermit)\n- [rxvt-unicode](http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html)\n\n**Windows**\n\n- [cmd.exe (Windows)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/cmd) (Not tested)\n\n**MacOS**\n\n## Configuration\n\nTo make Exterm open your preferred terminal, you need to configure it in the VS Code settings file. Follow the steps below:\n\n1. 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