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Windows Terminal
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settings.json - Windows Terminal settings.json
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</ref> It includes support for the cmd.exe | Command Prompt, PowerShell, Windows Subsystem for Linux | WSL and SSH.<ref>
</ref> After the initial source code release on GitHub, a preview release was first published to the Microsoft Store (digital) | Microsoft Store on June 21, 2019.<ref>
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With Cascadia Code, Microsoft also provides a new purpose-built monospaced font for the new command-line interface. It includes programming orthographic ligature | ligatures and was designed to enhance the look and feel of Windows Terminal, terminal applications and text editors such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.<ref name=“cascadia-code”>Cascadia Code ] | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers]</ref> The font is open-source under the [[SIL Open Font License and available on GitHub.<ref>GitHub - microsoft/cascadia-code</ref> It is bundled with Windows Terminal since version 0.5.2762.0.<ref>
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Features
Windows Terminal is a command-line front-end: It can run multiple terminal apps, including text-based shells in a Tab (interface) | multi-tabbed window. It has out-of-the-box support for Windows Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Microsoft Azure | Azure Cloud Shell Connector.<ref>The Azure Cloud Shell Connector in Windows Terminal ] | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers]</ref> All of these, by default, work on [[Windows Console.
Windows Terminal augments the text-based command experience by providing support for:
- Notebook tabs, to hold multiple instances in a single window
- Window Transparency (graphic) | transparency effects
- Background images
- Fullscreen mode
- Split panes
- Microsoft Narrator compatibility via a Microsoft UI Automation | User Interface Automation (UIA) tree<ref>Microsoft Issues Major Update to Windows Terminal – Thurrott.com</ref>
- Mouse input
- Customizable key bindings
See also
Notes
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Category of Command shells Category of Free terminal emulators Category of Windows commands Category of Windows components Category of Microsoft free software Category of Free software programmed in C++ Category of Software using the MIT license Category of 2019 software
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