Introducing the first Windows Terminal Preview update! You can download Windows Terminal Preview from or from the releases page on . Featured features will be moved to in July 2020.
Check it out below to find out what's new!
"Open in Windows Terminal"
You can now launch the Terminal with your default profile in the selected directory by right-clicking on the desired folder in File Explorer and selecting "Open in Windows Terminal".
Note: this will cause Windows Terminal Preview to run exactly until this feature transitions to Windows Terminal in July 2020.
Launching Windows Terminal when the computer is turned on
added a new option that allows you to configure Windows Terminal startup when you start your computer. To enable this feature, just set startOnUserLogin on true in global settings.
"startOnUserLogin": trueNote: if Windows Terminal autoload is disabled by organizational policy or user action, then this setting will have no effect.
Support for font faces
Windows Terminal Preview got a profile option fontWeight, which supports various kinds of font weights. Full documentation on it can be found on our .
"fontWeight": "normal"
Here's a quick look at the light version of the font's weight. . It is expected that support for various styles for Cascadia Code will appear in the next few months.
Alt+Click to open the panel
If you want to open an additional profile as a panel in the current window, you can click on it while holding Alt. This will open the selected profile in the panel using the split function with the value auto, which will divide the active window or panel, taking into account providing the largest area.
Tab Updates
Color change
You can now color your tabs by right-clicking on them and selecting βColorβ¦β. This will open the corresponding menu, where you can choose one of the suggested colors or specify your own color using the color picker, hex code, or RGB fields. The colors for each tab will persist throughout the current session. We express our deep gratitude for this feature!
Tip: use the same shade as the background color for a beautiful seamless window!
Renaming tabs
In the same context menu where the color palette is located, we have added the option to rename the tab. Clicking on it will change the tab title to a text field where you can enter your name for the current session.
Compact tab size
thanks we have added an option for the global parameter tabWidthMode, which reduces the size of each inactive tab to the width of an icon, while leaving more room for the active tab to display its full title.
"tabWidthMode": "compact"
New command line arguments
We've added a few extra commands to use as arguments when calling wt from the command line. The first argument is --maximized (or -M) that launches Windows Terminal in expanded state. The second is --fullscreen (or -F) that launches Windows Terminal in full screen mode. These two commands cannot be combined.
The third and, at the same time, the last is --title, which allows you to name the title of the tab before launching the Windows Terminal. Its working principle is similar tabTitle.
Note: if you have both Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview installed, the command wt will access Windows Terminal, which will not support these new arguments until July 2020. You can fix this by using this .
Opening defaults.json from keyboard
For those who wanted to open defaults.json from the keyboard, we have added a new default key binding ctrl+alt+,. Team openSettings got new options that allow you to open settings.json and defaults.json as "settingsFile" ΠΈ "defaultsFile" (or "allFiles") respectively.
{ "command": { "action": "openSettings", "target": "defaultsFile" }, "keys": "ctrl+alt+," }
In conclusion
If you want to know more about the latest features, we recommend visiting . Other than that, if you have any questions or share your opinion, then feel free to write to Kayla (Kayla, ) on Twitter. Also, if you want to make a suggestion to improve the Terminal or report a bug in it, then please contact the repository for this. .
Source: habr.com