Winget install -id=Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e In the past, I’ve avoided the Microsoft Store (and generally most Windows Store apps on my desktop - going so far as to remove all it out of my installs!) but not anymore!Īlternatively, you can use a package manager like choco or the official package manager for Windows now, winget. The easiest way is to install the latest release of Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. My full settings.json at the bottom of the article, only relevant snippets are littered throughout the article.

Work around the need for elevation with a neat little trick like I have above (Powershell at the bottom is elevated!).

Configure the start-up so it launches your workspace ready to start!.

Include your most used shells, terminals and SSH endpoints.

Customise the look and feel to your liking (themes, text, sizing) including some cool fonts to use!.

How to configure and setup your Windows Terminal.

This guide focuses on the latest Windows Terminal v1.3 release ( in preview as of writing). You will however require Wind(build 18362) or above. Windows Terminal v1.0 was announced at Build 2020 on May 19th, 2020.

For that we get a highly customisable, gpu-accelerated (text engine), tabbed interface and it’s open-source. The new terminal means we finally don’t need to install ConEmu (my favourite), Console2 or others to manage your terminal shells.

Windows terminal font size