Build Microsoft celebrated this year's Build conference by emitting the first stable release of its new Windows Terminal and a getting-there incarnation of its handy set of PowerToys utilities.
- Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut File Opener
- Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut File Folder
- Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut Files
- The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles,.
- Here are some useful Linux Terminal Shortcuts: Shortcut 1: Run previous typed command In your Linux terminal, type: # ls -l Now, if you want to run this command again i.e the (previous command), type the following and hit ENTER: #!! This will run the command which was previously typed i.e ‘ls -l'. Shortcut 2: Run command with last.
- At Build 2020 on May 19, 2020, Microsoft announced that the new Windows Terminal was stable and 'ready for enterprise use.' Windows Terminal version 1.0 is here. It was originally announced at Build 2019, and Microsoft even prepared a flashy video to sell how awesome it is. The new Windows Terminal is packed with useful features.
20 Terminal shortcuts developers need to know by Conner Forrest in Software on July 15, 2015, 5:00 AM PST These days, more and more developers are moving to OS X. This seems to work differently with the current VSCode version: In the Menu bar, go to Code - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts. Search for 'focus terminal'. Double click 'Terminal: Focus Next Terminal' or 'Terminal: Focus Previous Terminal', input your shortcut, press Enter.
Both could easily be part of the core Windows build, but the fact they aren't (like Edge) means that the apps have enjoyed a rapid pace of development.
Windows Terminal turns 1
The release of Windows Terminal v1.0 was not entirely surprising. Announced at Build 2019 with a source package for the brave, the open source command line tool has come along nicely over the last year, adding some initially clunky support for tabs as well as a delightfully retro CRT screen effect.
More seriously, the app has configuration options aplenty to permit users to get their terminal sessions just so, and will cheerfully support the likes of PowerShell as well as WSL distributions.
Amandine 1 0 1 0. The team has spent the weeks leading up to Build dealing with fit and finish, having put out a release candidate just over two weeks ago that, among other things, fixed the habit Terminal had of crashing on exit for some users.
Copied 1 2 – copy notifications and clipboard clearing. 'An exit is an exit, but a crash is also a crash,' observed the team wisely, before adding: 'and that made our reliability numbers stink.'
Quite.
Now deemed fit for production tasks, the release (version 1.0.1401.0), comes complete with the whizzy new Cascadia Code 2005.15 font and is downloadable from the Microsoft Store. Ours auto-updated and, after the usual whinge about our elderly configuration file needing to be fixed, remains an excellent option for console jockeys on Windows.
The fresh release also marks the arrival of a new preview version, which will receive monthly updates from June and can coexist with the stable incarnation.
Run, PowerToys, Run
Not yet at version 1.0 status but updated for Build was retro throwback PowerToys, a suite of handy Windows utilities (x64 only.)
Those with the app already installed were able to see the auto-updater doing its thing for the first time (and, in the case of this hack, making the Windows desktop jolly unhappy for a few seconds before the OS pulled its pants back up) and enjoy the new toys in version 0.18.
The list of utilities has continued to grow, having begun with a slightly flaky FancyZones Windows manager and shortcut guide before growing to include File Explorer previewers and a Renaming tool.
The latest additions to the stable are a keyboard manager for remapping keys and shortcuts and, very usefully, PowerToys Run.
Those Windows users (me included) who never use the Start Menu and instead run apps by hitting the Windows key and just typing will welcome the enhancement. PowerRun is triggered by a custom keyboard combination (such as Alt + Space) and shows a list of matching apps as the user types into an oversized text box.
'We know,' said senior program manager at Microsoft, Clint Rutkas, 'there are areas for improvement on PT Run.'
And goodness, he is right. While still preview code, there seems to be little control over where the PT Run box appears on multi-screen systems; logic would dictate the active window, although in practise things seem a little more random.
The gang plans a number of additional preview releases before declaring the application stable enough for the version 1.0 moniker in the September timeframe. ®
Windows Terminal is here! From the buzz of the announcement at Microsoft Build 2019 to the release of 1.0 at Build 2020, it's generated excitement and interest from the dev community. Get started by downloading the Preview here.
As a refresher, Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL.
Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcut key bindings.
Today, we're digging into three ways to tailor the Terminal to your preference: colors, cursor, and tabs.
Choose your Colors
Windows Terminal includes the following named color schemes inside the defaults.json file, which can be accessed by holding alt and selecting the settings button.
- Campbell
- Campbell Powershell
- Vintage
- One Half Dark
- One Half Light
- Solarized Dark
- Solarized Light
- Tango Dark
- Tango Light
This is what Vintage looks like:
To set up your scheme inside one of your command-line profiles, add the colorScheme property with the color scheme's name as the value.
'colorScheme': 'COLOR SCHEME NAME'
Every setting, aside from name, accepts a color as a string in hex format: '#rgb' or '#rrggbb'. The cursorColor and selectionBackground settings are optional.
Dark and light theme are also available in the Terminal's chrome.
Property name: theme
Necessity: Optional
Accepts: 'system', 'dark', 'light'
Default value: 'system'
Design Your Cursor
Old school or modern, there's a full set of cursor options for shape, color, and height.
Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut File Opener
Do you prefer horizontal or vertical? A line or a box? Just tell the Terminal.
This sets the cursor shape for the profile. The possible cursors are as follows: 'bar' ( ┃ ), 'vintage' ( ▃ ), 'underscore' ( ▁ ), 'filledBox' ( █ ), 'emptyBox' ( ▯ )
Property name: cursorShape
Necessity: Optional
Accepts: 'bar', 'vintage', 'underscore', 'filledBox', 'emptyBox'
Default value: 'bar'
You can override cursorColor set in the color scheme if colorScheme is set. Color as a string in hex format: '#rgb' or '#rrggbb' are accepted.
cursorHeight sets the percentage height of the cursor starting from the bottom. This will only work when cursorShape is set to 'vintage.' Integers from 25-100 are accepted.
What's in a (Tab) Name?
You can easily rename and recolor tabs in Windows Terminal Preview. Just right click on a tab and select Rename Tab to rename a tab for that session. This option will change your tab title into a text field, where you can then edit the title.
Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut File Folder
Do the same to recolor your tab. Select from a predefined list of colors or click Custom to use the color picker or the RGB/HSV or hex fields. One cool tip is to use the hex field to set your tab to the same color as your background color for a seamless look.
Terminal 1 0 1 – Your Terminal Shortcut Files
To set the tab title for a profile for every terminal instance, check out the Tab title tutorial.
Monthly updates for Windows Terminal begin in July 2020. Don't forget to download Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store or from the GitHub releases page. This is the channel where you can be involved with the development of Windows Terminal and use the latest features as soon as they are developed.