Windows Terminal is a terminal emulator for Windows 10 written by Microsoft. Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming & styling, and more.
Questions tagged [windows-terminal]
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Is there a way to change the default shell in Windows Terminal?
When opening the new Windows Terminal, it opens up PowerShell.
Also by default new tabs are PowerShell.
You have to manually switch to your desired shell.
Is there a way in the settings JSON file to change this to cmd or something else?
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Windows terminal: Predefined tabs on startup
Is it possible to start the Windows terminal with (multiple) tabs, each on a configured working directory?
The reason for this is, because I usually manually do the same steps each day: Start the same handful of shells and cd on each of them to a…
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Open Windows Terminal as admin with WIN+R
I use shortcut +R to run Windows Terminal [wt], but I cannot run it as Admin, which causes problems when I install something via choco.
To open it as Admin, I have to: Press > Right-click Terminal > More > Run as Admin > ◀ > ENTER
Some…
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How do I get Windows Terminal to stop asking me every time I paste something into the terminal?
Everytime I paste something into Windows Terminal I get the following annoying message that's attempting to save me from myself. I don't need it! How can I make it go away?
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How do I add a keyboard shortcut to clear scrollback buffer in Windows Terminal?
I'd like to be able to clear my scrollback buffer in Windows Terminal using a keyboard shortcut.
In WSL I can hit Ctrl+L and it does a form-feed (equivalent of clear -x command), which clears the screen but only by scrolling the content above up and…
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Open putty ssh-session in new Windows Terminal
As in the question, is it possible to open Putty session in Windows Terminal in one Window?
Or maybe there's something similar like pageant for OpenSSH?
I can create an ssh session using OpenSSH, but I need to set a passphrase for it. I don't want…
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Clear Screen in PowerShell and Command Line without erasing everything
In using the clear command, the screen clears. Totally. I no longer have access to any of the stuff that was previously on the screen at all.
Is there a way to "clear" the screen (i.e. make the prompt go to the top of the screen) without erasing…
Bob
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Windows copy command concatenates several files in non-numerical order
I have a folder with around 5000 .ts files that I want to concat together into one.
They follow the naming format of chunk_n so for example chunk_50, chunk_51, chunk_52 etc. When I run the windows copy command like this:
copy /b *.ts final.ts
It…
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When I Start my Windows 11 computer, the terminal pops up saying: Error writing proxy settings. (5) Access is denied
Problem
Sometimes when I start my Windows 11 computer, the terminal pops up with an error message: Error writing proxy settings. (5) Access is denied. This does not happen every time, but I will occasionally see it.
Error message
Error writing proxy…
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Windows Terminal has no title bar and doesn't show tabs
OS: Windows 11
Build: 21H2 22000.258
Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor 4.00 GHz
RAM: 64.0 GB (63.9 GB usable)
It's a pretty fresh install of Windows too, because I did a fresh install when I got another WD Black SN850 2TB NVMe about a…
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Updated Windows Terminal and now Ubuntu won't load. process exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)
Initially posted to the Unix \ linux stack exchange and was pointed here instead.
I recently updated Windows Terminal from 1.2.X to 1.12.X and the Ubuntu install refuses to run, giving the error [process exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)].…
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How do I change the windows error sound for windows terminal to something different?
Okay, so you know when you press backspace on an empty line in windows terminal, it makes that annoying error sound? How do I change the sound the something else? Thanks.
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Windows Terminal, just translucent (not blurry) background is impossible?
I want to achieve something like the screenshot below (not mine, found by Google image search) with Windows Terminal (1.0.1401.0). Just black with low alpha value.
Setting the acrylic efect, I can see through the terminal window, but the screen…
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Installing Windows Terminal .msixbundle using PowerShell Add-AppxPackage
I'm trying to install Windows Terminal on Windows 10 v1803 [build 17134.13.04] where I don't have any admin privileges and Microsoft Store has also been deactivated. I downloaded the .msixbundle from the GitHub release page and used the command from…
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How to start WSL in windows terminal programmatically and run command
I would like to start Ubuntu WSL [shell: bash] inside Windows Terminal from a batch file and pass a command, which should immediately run after startup.
When directly starting WSL, I'm able to do this using the -c argument; e.g. the following opens…
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