I'd recommend you PIN terminal to your taskbar and start menu, but you can run windows terminal from the command 'wt' from Windows R or from anotherc console. If you like Font Ligatures or use Powerline, consider Fira Code as a potential new font.

If you're using WSL or WSL2, use the distro name like this in your new profile: 'wsl.exe -d Ubuntu-18.04'

Try other things like cursor shape and color, history size, as well as different fonts for each tab. For now, be specific, so the * might be expressed as Ctrl+Shift+8, for example. You can edit the key bindings to your taste in the 'key bindings' section. 'backgroundImageStretchMode': 'uniformToFill You can do background images, even animated, with opacity (with useAcrylic off): 'backgroundImage': 'c:/users/scott/desktop/doug.gif', Under the menu go to Settings to open profiles.json. If you don't see any tabs, hit Ctrl-T and note the + and the pull down menu at the top there. Today you can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store! This is a preview release (think v0.2) but it'll automatically update, often, from the Windows Store if you have Windows 10 version 18362.0 or higher. It's been very v0.1 if you know what I mean. Last month Microsoft announced a new open source Windows Terminal! It's up at and it's great, but for the last several weeks you've had to build it yourself as a Developer.

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