How to open a terminal on WebStorm?

Question

How do I get WebStorm to open a terminal?

When I try to do it I get an Exception:

\"java.io.IOEXception:couldn\'t create PTY\"

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Answer 1

The problem in my case was that I had the "Start directory" field of the Tools > Terminal settings page set to a path which didn't exist on my drive. It's too bad the error message is not more specific when this kind of mistake is made.