However, if you wish to customize this start-up layout, you can use the wt with command line arguments. When you open up Windows Terminal, by default it will open up a single tab with a single pane, using your default profile. You can select each pane either by clicking it, or you can use the alt + shortcut to move the focus between the panes, in the direction of the arrow key.įinally, to close a pane, you can use the ctrl + shift + w shortcut. To resize the panes, use alt + shift + to resize in the direction of the arrow key used. Note, the profile that opens in the new pane will always be the whatever you have set as your default profile. You can open a new pane either to the right using alt + shift + =, or to the bottom using alt + shift +. Currently, the only way to use this feature is via the keyboard shortcuts (you can customize these though - see Customize key bindings section). Windows Terminal has support for using split panes inside a tab. Scott Hanselman even wrote a fun post around how to dynamically update the background to produce reaction gifs for specific commands.

It also supports animated gifs, if you are so inclined. You can specify an image either via a URL or a local file path, and also set the opacity and stretch/alignment preferences for the image. Windows Terminal supports setting custom backgrounds on your profiles.

(Many of these tips require editing the settings, which you can do by opening the settings.json file either through the pull-down menu at the top of the application, or by using the ctrl +, keyboard shortcut.) Customize the background Open the Terminal at the current directory.In this post, I will list out 5 tips for improving the already-great Windows Terminal experience:

You can install it either through the Windows Store (recommended), manually via the GitHub release artifacts, or if you use Chocolately, then there is an unofficial Chocolatey package ( choco install microsoft-windows-terminal). The team have recently released v0.11, which will be the last major version before v1.0 (I would take a guess that v1.0 will announced at Microsoft Build 2020). If you aren't already using the new Windows Terminal, then I recommend installing it and trying it out. By Mike Larah Software Engineer III 7th May 2020

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