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. You’ll find many more options we didn’t cover here on that list.By Mike Larah Software Engineer III 7th May 2020 Microsoft has a guide to editing the Windows Terminal JSON settings file as well as a list of all the options you can add to the file. For example, you could choose a Linux session instead of PowerShell. Default profile selection: Choose the profile you want to launch by default when you launch Windows Terminal or click the New Tab button.Animated GIF backgrounds: You can even set an animated GIF as your custom background.For example, you could change your Ubuntu session so that it had a Ubuntu-themed custom background image. Custom backgrounds: You can set a custom background image for a session.You can customize the command that’s executed when you start the command-line environment and set custom fonts and color schemes for each session. Profiles: Create different profiles that will appear under the New Tab button.Here’s a list of the included color schemes.

Color schemes: Change the color scheme (theme) of the terminal environment.Configurable key bindings: You can bind keyboard shortcuts to actions or change the default keyboard shortcuts.

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