Terminal

Terminal is a essential, development app. 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, and configurations.

• Open in Microsoft Store, show in webstore or invoke:

  winget install -e 9N0DX20HK701 --accept-package-agreements
  

• Invoke the installer listed on Windows Package Manager:

  winget install -e Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

Cloud synchronization

Replace local settings with synchronized cloud settings

Invoke-Command {
$cloudFolder = "D:\PlutosCloud\Config\Terminal"
$localFolder = "$env:LocalAppData\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState"
$syncItems = @(
    'settings.json'
)
 
if (-not ([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) {
 throw "Administrator privilege required to run this script"
}
 
# Replace local files with references to synchronized cloud files
$syncItems | foreach {
    New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Path "$localFolder\$_" -Target "$cloudFolder\$_" -Force
}
 
# Keep all cloud files that can be pointed to always available
Set-Location $cloudFolder -ErrorAction Stop
@(
    Get-Item $syncItems
    Get-Item $syncItems | where PSIsContainer | Get-ChildItem -Recurse
) | foreach { $_.Attributes = $_.Attributes -bor 0x080000 }
}

Or setup manually

Open Settings

Open Startup

• Default terminal application: Windows Terminal
• Launch mode: Maximized focus
• New instance behavior: Attach to the most recently used window on this desktop
• Save changes

Open Appearance

• Show acrylic in tab row: Yes
• Save changes

Open Actions

• Delete Paste using Ctrl + V
• Add Toggle focus mode using F10
• Save changes

Open Profiles > Default > Appearance

• Font size: 10 # Text
• Background opacity: 70%
• Enable acrylic: Yes
• Save changes

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Related:

• Windows Terminal - A unified interface to access and manage different command-line tools and environments
• Synchronize content between devices
• multiline powershell expression

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