Hey Habr! You may have heard that a new Windows Terminal is coming out very soon. We already wrote about it . Our colleague Scott Hanselman has prepared some tips on how to work with the new terminal. Join now!
So, you've downloaded Windows Terminal and... now what?
At first, you may not be thrilled. It's still a Terminal, and it won't lead you by the hand.
1) Familiarize yourself with
2) The settings are expressed in . You will do better if your JSON file editor is something like and will support JSON Schema as well as intellisense.
- Check your default settings! For clarity, I present my (which is by no means ideal). I have set requestedTheme, alwaysShowTabs and defaultProfile.
3) Decide on keyboard shortcuts. Windows Terminal has .
- Any key you press can be remapped.
4) Does the design match your desires?
- On the there are several themes for the terminal.
- And here are dozens , with their color solutions you can clearly see .
5) Want to take it to the next level? Explore background images.
- You can set background images or even GIFs. More .
6) Specify your startingDirectory.
- If you are using WSL, you may sooner or later want your home directory to be in .
7) You can still use Far, GitBash, Cygwin, or cmder if you like. Details in .
8) Examine the Windows Terminal command line arguments.
- You may know that you can start Windows Terminal using "wt.exe", but now you can use command line arguments too! Here are some examples:
wt ; split-pane -p "Windows PowerShell" ; split-pane -H wsl.exe wt -d . wt -d c:githubAt this stage, you can go as far as you want. Make other icons, pin them to the taskbar, have fun. Also, check out subcommands like new-tab, split-pane, and focus-tab.
9) I wrote down , which demonstrates to a person who is used to Mac and Linux how to set up Windows Terminal in conjunction with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), you might be interested.
Please share your tips, profiles and favorite terminal themes below!
Source: habr.com