

When set to "persistedWindowLayout", this enables Windows Terminal to save the layout of open windows on close and restore all saved windows on starting a new session. When set to "defaultProfile", Windows Terminal will start a new session by opening a single tab with your default profile. Note: if the Windows Terminal startup task entry is disabled either by org policy or by user action this setting will have no effect.ĭefault value: false Behavior when starting a new terminal session Setting this to false will disable the startup task entry. When set to true, this enables the launch of Windows Terminal at startup. Sponsor: Suffering from a lack of clarity around software bugs? Give your customers the experience they deserve and expect with error monitoring from feature is only available when running Windows 10 Insider Program Dev Channel or Windows 11. Go spend some time learning about Panes in Windows Terminal and let me know how it goes for you! It's gonna make your command line life so much better!ĪCTION: Finally, please take a moment and subscribe to my YouTube or head over to and explore! I'd love to hit 100k subs over there. I can even navigate between pans with the ALT key and my arrow keys! Even better, SHIFT+ALT and the arrow keys will resize them!

With hotkeys I can control where panes open. Now you can see the VS2019 prompt in the lower left corner. I'm doing this while Ubuntu is the focused pane. I'll then click the dropdown, hold ALT, and click on the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt that I've added to the menu. NET Core) and sitting in my podcast's source code directory. The best way to get started with ZERO setup is to click the main Dropdown in Windows Terminal and hold down the ALT key while you click on a shell!īelow you can see Ubuntu/WSL2 on the left running htop, while on the right I'm running PowerShell 7 (powered by. There's great docs on setting up hotkeys for this, and you should. However, the Windows Terminal supports a multi-pane view at the Terminal-level, regardless of shell! There are several multi-pane options to choose from within a shell using something like tmux. "Use Tmux!" you might shout, and that's a valid thing to yell if I was only living in Linux (using WSL2). The Terminal of course has Tabs so you can open many different shells at once within a terminal instance, often I want to do things like Split Screen/Split Pane. I enjoy customizing the Windows Terminal with a nice prompt.
My love and appreciate for the new open-source Windows Terminal is well-documented.
