To access settings, select Settings (or press Ctrl + ,). One of the advantages of Windows Terminal is its vast array of configuration options. Windows Terminal with multiple shells Settings for Windows Terminal Note, in order to use Ubuntu (or other Linux-based shells) you’ll need to configure Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) first. You can use shortcut keys to open different types, or just click any of the ones you need. I’ve added Azure Cloud Shell manually, but Windows PowerShell, cmd and Ubuntu are readily available. To open another kind of tab, click on the small chevron icon to view what’s available: Available tabs in Windows Terminal Navigating between the tabs works just like in a regular browser these days. To open multiple tabs, use Ctrl-T (or click on the + icon): Multiple tabs in Windows Terminal Support for zooming is built-in, so you can use the Ctrl + mouse wheel to zoom in and out: Zooming in Windows Terminal It looks almost exactly like a traditional Command Prompt in Windows! Windows Terminal initial layout Initially, Windows Terminal does not look like much. Simply right-click the icon, select More, and then select Run as Administrator (or Ctrl-Shift-Enter to run it from the Start Menu). Note, that you can also run Windows Terminal as an administrator, should you need elevated access within any of the shells. Once Windows Terminal is installed, you can run it from the Start menu by clicking on Windows Terminal: Then run the following to install Windows Terminal: choco install microsoft-windows-terminalįinally, if you have trust issues or just like to do stuff on your own, you can compile Windows Terminal directly from the sources. You can also use Chocolatey, a package manager for Windows, to install it automatically.įirst, install Chocolatey by running the following in a Command Prompt: -NoProfile -InputFormat None -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object ).DownloadString(''))" & SET "PATH=%PATH% %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"
You can get Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store here. This is a fairly recent Windows 10 build. Installing is easy but a prerequisite is Windows 10 build 18362 (or higher). Windows Terminal is still in preview, and at the time of writing this, it’s in version 0.3 (Preview). As such, it isn’t tied to PowerShell, although it can host a PowerShell session easily.
Windows Terminal aims to be a powerful terminal, regardless of what scripting language you choose to use. But then again, PowerShell is still very much a management and task automation framework with a scripting language. We got PowerShell in late 2006, and that’s a very capable and viable alternative to Command Prompt.
The idea with Windows Terminal is to go beyond the traditional Command Prompt, which has been around in Windows (and before that, i n MS-DOS) for decades.
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