

The settings file mainly have four sections If you don’t have that, update your Windows 10 OS first. Note: You need Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher for the new Windows Terminal to work. That’s it! It’ll immediately update the terminal with the changes. It’s just a text file, so you can edit it with any text editor and save it. It’ll open the profile.json file that hosts all the settings. For that, click on the drodown button on the top-right corner and select Settings. To make any changes, you’ll have to update the JSON file manually. I guess in future they’ll provide some UI for the settings, but currently it’s a bare bone JSON file. But to use it to it’s potential and you taste, you need to make some adjustments. So when you download and install it from the Microsoft Store, it’s all ready for use. The profile settings has been updated since v0.11. Note: See update later for the latest settings. Settings hints to help configure your own terminal Also it’s open source & in full development, so it’ll get better.Configurable copy-paste (I still have trouble using it seamlessly across terminals though).Configurable commands & key shortcuts (through settings).


You can install this new terminal, and configure to suit your taste, and this can host all you command terminals in one place, separated by tabs, their individual settings, themes etc. cmd, PowerShell, Git, Bash etc.) then this is for you. If you are a developer, love/need to use multiple command line applications (e.g. This is like a whole new version of the classic Command Prompt command-line terminal on Windows, which is super cool, open source & comes with bunch of really helpful productivity features. You could also build it from the source code on GitHub. Now the preview version for Windows 10 terminal is available to download from Microsoft store.
