I'm also working on a ' Open Windows Terminal Here' INF that will add a menu item to your Explorer right click menu (until one day it's included out of the box).There's subcommands like new-tab, split-pane, and focus-tab.ter Other Windows Terminal things to note Make other icons, pin them to the taskbar, have a blast. wt split-pane -p 'Windows PowerShell' split-pane -H wsl.exe Īt this point you can get as advanced as you want.You may know you can run Windows Terminal with 'wt.exe' and this version now supports Command line arguments! Here's an examples to give you a taste: Here's the big new change that is very exciting! Windows Terminal Command Line Arguments You can still use Far, GitBash, Cygwin, or cmder if you want! Read the docs!.If you are using WSL you might want your starting directory to be ~ on the Linux file system.You can set background images or even animated gifs AND change them at runtime.Take it to the next level? Explore background images.There are dozens and dozens of iTerm2 Terminal themes here and images of them are here.Are the fonts and colors the way you want them?.Any key you press can likely be remapped.Assert and decide on your keybindings.I set the requestedTheme, alwaysShowTabs, and my defaultProfile (what shell is the starter shell?) Check your defaults! Here is my profile.json (which is by no means perfect).You will be more successful if your JSON file editor is something like Visual Studio Code and supports JSON Schema so you'll get intellisense. The Documentation is just getting started but you can start here! This would be a great way for you to get involved in Open Source, by the way! This is a Terminal, it's not going to hold your hand.

So you've downloaded the Windows Terminal.now what?

At this point this is the end of the new features before 1.0 though, and now it's all about bug fixes and rock solid stability. This isn't a new 'DOS Prompt.' Windows Terminal is the view into whatever shell makes you happy.

NOTE: Have you already downloaded the Terminal, maybe a while back? Enough has changed that you should delete your profiles.json and start over.īIG NOTE: Educate yourself about the difference between a console, a terminal, and a shell.

I recommend the Store version if possible. There's also an unofficial Chocolatey release. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. It's the feature complete release of the Windows Terminal.

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