As always a great set of tips for Windows Terminal. I learnt following new things 1 - CTRL + Shift + mouse scroll to change the transparency 2 - CTRL + L to clear the screen Thanks Scott for sharing these
@@aaronmorgan4466 yeah, it got casually slid in there, so a blink and you miss it moment hehe 7:10 just learnt it myself and will be nice having something faster than typing 'clear' each time
Very timely. Got a new Surface Laptop and was using your old articles and videos last night to setup oh-my-posh and the terminal. Lots of new nuggets in this vid.
I'm an SPFX developer and reaped massive amounts of benefit from WSL2 + Windows Terminal - took a while to setup but never looked back. Thanks for all the tips and tricks.
Nice tips! I'm really happy with Windows Terminal so far, I just wish we could set more than one font or fallback fonts (but I remember seing something about that on github so maybe it's something in developement), and a way to disable some dead keys (I'm using a European keyboard) but to my knowledge no terminal handle this correctly so maybe it's an impossible task. Thanks for the video!
I was wondering whether you could make a video on how to backup and restore Windows Terminal settings to keep all devices in sync. I appreciate all the hard work.
Folder drop was something new! I was wondering if there is a way to open a new tab/pane with the current directory, so that it is not required to change to the particular location after creating a new tab/pane? Thank you for the high quality and knowledge full videos!
Thanks for the tips. I just started using this new Windows Terminal and am becoming a huge fan of it. I do have one question or tip. Is there a way to open a command or powershell in admin mode using the new windows terminal?
I love the possibility to split panes, is there a way to do a split pane but instead of opening a new pane of the same profile (e.g. powershell), make it that another profile is opened? Btw, I love your videos! I've learn so much from you.
Great tips. You mentioned in one of your Git videos about using VSCode instead oif Vi when Git shows you a txt file. i/e/ when typing the output of git log. Is that a setting in Windows Terminal or is it of git?
Thanks for pointing out the drag & drop of files from Explorer to open a new tab with the default profile in that directory. Is there a way to select another profile when doing that, or does it only work for the default? Also, drag & drop is not allowed for Administrator sessions-is that configurable?
Great tips, thanks for the overview. I would love some ideas about getting in/out of administrator mode easier. Like for example, it would be super ideal to have a keybind that opened a split tab that was an administrator. Thanks for the video!
Two features that would be nice do have: 1 - From Cmder -> The ability to save groups of terminals (they call tasks) and reopen them in the same positions, splits and paths. I can even run commands like activatiing my python virtualenvs. Super useful to have my development working tree, my test terminal, my scripts folder and my django application running in separate tabs/panes and I don't need to cd / activate / run everything from scratch. 2 - From Terminator -> The ability to move the panes and rearrange the terminal splits.
Regarding your first point; I think you can achieve what you want by simply preparing a Shortcut that runs something like the following depending on your needs of course (you can also execute commands but didn't include it to keep it simple): wt ; new-tab -p "Command Prompt" -d C:\ ; split-pane -p "Ubuntu"
Okay, as usually what a great video. I have to ask, what is that PowerShell Module (Assuming it's a PS Module) you have at 6:25? Showing the history of directory changes, that's awesome.
Hello sir, Can you please make a video about GUI programming? Just the general idea would be good. I am a beginner at programming. The program we do at first is all about cli/consle program. How does the gui work?
@scott Might I suggest you change the bg color of your dotnet prompt segment to the official logo branding color of #512bd4 ? You used the same color as the node segment which causes them to run together. (I know you don't have the node segment in your theme.) Also, purple seems to be the color of dotnet, probably because it is the color of royalty. :)
If you are navigating inside windows explorer and write cmd in the path bar, it will start the terminal from there. If you have windows 11 and default you command line prompt to windows terminal it will show up then. @Edit, just found out windows 11 has the command prompt in the right click menu in explorer anyway. But this tip works on older windows versions as well.
Thank you @Scott!! I may switch to this (from ConEmu) if I can find a way to have a transparent background like in default Windows terminal. Is there a way to have that, meaning no blur but true transparency?
Hey Scott (or anyone else that might know)... I love the Windows Terminal. I would like to take advantage of it for work but I am in an odd situation. Our machines are locked down. I have a local admin account but we are not allowed to log in (directly) with that account. We are only allowed to log in with our domain account and run applications (as needed) as an administrator. I can't seem to run specific tabs or Windows Terminal as an administrator. Am I just being ignorant and missing something obvious (wouldn't be unheard of)? Is this something that may be supported eventually? In either case, I do use Windows Terminal on my personal machine and appreciate your videos.
I use the Split Horizontal and Split Vertical all the time. I always reach for the command palette ctrl + shift + p and type 'split' though, because I can't remember the shortcuts for those and I don't want to use the mouse. Too lazy to setup new shortcuts. ohmyposh is nice but really slows down the reactiveness of the commands...
Hey Scott! I ran across this again as I was searching for some info. It's not the first time I've seen it, but it's always worth a re-watch. I do have a question, though I'm not certain that it's an actual Windows Terminal Question. I was doing a bit of work with setting up some code signing and SSH keys using gpg4win in PowerShell. I needed to work with the KeyId for a particular key, so I assigned it to a PowerShell variable for reference during the session. NP there. The following day, I was going to work with a different key and when I started typing to assign the key ID to a variable (same name - $keyid), the terminal gave me a lovely Intellisense style suggestion to complete the assignment, complete with the ID of the key I was originally working with. I suppose this is really two questions... 1. Is that a function of PowerShell or the WIndows Terminal? 2. While I love this sort of Intellisense/Cache thing for most things, I'd like to be able to either clear it manually, or ideally, exclude a given command from it. Can you point me to a resource about how this works and how to control it? Cheers, and as always, thanks for your amazing content!
Which version of windows terminal do you recommend/use from the store? One may install 'Windows Terminal' - currently v 1.11.3471.0 or 'Windows Terminal preview' - currently Version 1.12.3472.0.
@@shanselman I downloaded it like 2 days ago after seeing your super long, lenghty, verbose, detailed video to setup the terminal :). But I'm on windows 10 (maybe the reason?) I'll teak with it a little more to see if I can figure it out. Thank you !
May I know the name of the software you used for recording in your videos? I notice you can draw arrows live to show us where we should look at. That's the feature I'm looking for.
I'd LOOOOOOOOVE to be able to make ONE TAB an admin tab. Or a setting so that future console windows (like those opened by VS) can be added as tabs to an existing window.....
I have a question: Is it possible to change the character set of a specific size with a monochrome picture to display the picture inside of a block of character on the Windows terminal?
hey i have a question, this laptop/computer you are using, you have many linux distros installed in there, do they take ram or its just using disk space when you are not using them? And how much space does the ubuntu distro takes after install? Also how much Ram is in your system? thanks.
is this version only available in windows 11, cause i don't see these options in my terminal in windows 10 and my PC is not yet eligible for Windows 11 upgrade?
There’s a couple things keeping me from switching from conemu to this. Currently I am unable to open a new prompt in the same directory as the one I’m currently in. Is this possible?
@@shanselman that would be amazing! I’ve taken plenty of pointers with oh my posh, thanks to you… but every time I see your prompt showing suggestions, I’m like ‘that!! what is that??’ 😉
Is there a real benefit to the terminal transparency? I can see obvious accessibility benefits to almost all of the display customisations, settings etc. that are available... except that one. Don't get me wrong - 'Because it looks cool and you can impress your friends' is a totally legit reason for it being there, but I was just curious.
I think it's mostly just because it looks cool. One possible use; you could set the desktop background of servers to certain colors by function or role (for example, production web server is red background). Transparency of even a maximized terminal could help to remind you that you're working on a dev / stage / production server.
Take a look and see if a developer tools are in your terminal menu? Or try installing terminal preview. We should have a detector that that notices the developer tools and add some of the menu item in Terminal. And soon in 11 Terminal will be the default.
great knowledge!, hey scott are you looking to hire as i m looking for a job, been c# developer. i couldnt find better way to reach you than youtube directly, appologies just in case.
I tried "oh-my--posh" to change the terminal prompt. But the prompt became very slow (~ 20-60ms delay). I like the beautiful terminal prompt but cannot compromise on speed. And I have i7, 16 GB RAM and SSD.
@@shanselman Thank you for your response. I noticed that themes "Paradox" and some other themes were slower. I switched to default theme "jandedobbeleer" and it is much better.
Does anyone else fail to get notifications when Scott posts a new video? I have subscribed to “all updates” but I do not get notified by RUclips and the videos do not show up in the notifications list (bell icon). I get notified for other channels, just not Scott’s.
@@shanselman it is strange. I disabled/ re-enabled channel notifications, which I’ve done before, but will cross my fingers it works this time. Thanks for the great content! My terminals is working very well for me.
They are still using JSONs for configuration instead of an actual configuration system? Kind of weak. I'll wait till they get an actual config system. That's so bodgy.
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As always a great set of tips for Windows Terminal. I learnt following new things
1 - CTRL + Shift + mouse scroll to change the transparency
2 - CTRL + L to clear the screen
Thanks Scott for sharing these
Guess I wasn't pay close enough attention because I've learnt CTRL+L from you :) Maybe I was to engrossed setting my Close Tab action...
@@aaronmorgan4466 yeah, it got casually slid in there, so a blink and you miss it moment hehe 7:10
just learnt it myself and will be nice having something faster than typing 'clear' each time
Very timely. Got a new Surface Laptop and was using your old articles and videos last night to setup oh-my-posh and the terminal. Lots of new nuggets in this vid.
I'm an SPFX developer and reaped massive amounts of benefit from WSL2 + Windows Terminal - took a while to setup but never looked back.
Thanks for all the tips and tricks.
Yesterday I was browsing your channel for a video about the Windows Terminal! Thank you!
Love the Oh My Posh prompt, it's so lovely. I still need some time to follow the video though, but thank you Scott!
Very helpful tips, thanks Scott!
Scott - Thank you - tons of tips! I learned a lot!
Nice set of tips, thank you very much.
Nice tips! I'm really happy with Windows Terminal so far, I just wish we could set more than one font or fallback fonts (but I remember seing something about that on github so maybe it's something in developement), and a way to disable some dead keys (I'm using a European keyboard) but to my knowledge no terminal handle this correctly so maybe it's an impossible task. Thanks for the video!
Really like that tube monitor shader - Cool stuff :-)
Scott your are amazing, as always! You are the only reason why I would consider moving back to Windows!
Watching this on Arch Linux.
This will be my first ever live on Windows Terminal, looking forward to learning some tips and tricks
Thanks for coming!
I was wondering whether you could make a video on how to backup and restore Windows Terminal settings to keep all devices in sync. I appreciate all the hard work.
Hey thanks for this video! greets from Colombia! Loved this video
Folder drop was something new! I was wondering if there is a way to open a new tab/pane with the current directory, so that it is not required to change to the particular location after creating a new tab/pane? Thank you for the high quality and knowledge full videos!
Thanks for the tips. I just started using this new Windows Terminal and am becoming a huge fan of it. I do have one question or tip. Is there a way to open a command or powershell in admin mode using the new windows terminal?
I love the possibility to split panes, is there a way to do a split pane but instead of opening a new pane of the same profile (e.g. powershell), make it that another profile is opened?
Btw, I love your videos! I've learn so much from you.
very helpful as usual, thanks sir
Great tips. You mentioned in one of your Git videos about using VSCode instead oif Vi when Git shows you a txt file. i/e/ when typing the output of git log. Is that a setting in Windows Terminal or is it of git?
Thank you!
Thanks for pointing out the drag & drop of files from Explorer to open a new tab with the default profile in that directory. Is there a way to select another profile when doing that, or does it only work for the default? Also, drag & drop is not allowed for Administrator sessions-is that configurable?
Nice!
Great tips, thanks for the overview. I would love some ideas about getting in/out of administrator mode easier. Like for example, it would be super ideal to have a keybind that opened a split tab that was an administrator. Thanks for the video!
Ah look at “gsudo” and that will solve it for you
CTRL+Shift click on the taskbar icons gives you run as administrator but I dont think this is what you want
Two features that would be nice do have:
1 - From Cmder -> The ability to save groups of terminals (they call tasks) and reopen them in the same positions, splits and paths. I can even run commands like activatiing my python virtualenvs. Super useful to have my development working tree, my test terminal, my scripts folder and my django application running in separate tabs/panes and I don't need to cd / activate / run everything from scratch.
2 - From Terminator -> The ability to move the panes and rearrange the terminal splits.
Regarding your first point; I think you can achieve what you want by simply preparing a Shortcut that runs something like the following depending on your needs of course (you can also execute commands but didn't include it to keep it simple):
wt ; new-tab -p "Command Prompt" -d C:\ ; split-pane -p "Ubuntu"
@@berkarslan Sure. It's a workaround. But having it managed by the terminal itself is very convenient.
Love the wall background? What wall paint color did you paint your room?
Deep Chocolate Brown, then I have a LED light from LIFX
Okay, as usually what a great video. I have to ask, what is that PowerShell Module (Assuming it's a PS Module) you have at 6:25?
Showing the history of directory changes, that's awesome.
Yes details on my blog. It’s a history prediction provider. And my profile is in my gists.
As an Ubuntu user ... I find myself longing for some sweet pixel shader action!
Sir which tool u use to draw rectangle and draw arrows to highlight something and zoom any area of recording screen please sir tell me😊
ZoomIt.
Thank you! :)
More Hansel-inal?! I’m in!
Nice tips, Is there any easy way to highlight/color text for network devices like Cisco/Juniper/Arista?
I know Iterm2 and securecrt has it
Hello sir, Can you please make a video about GUI programming? Just the general idea would be good. I am a beginner at programming. The program we do at first is all about cli/consle program. How does the gui work?
@scott Might I suggest you change the bg color of your dotnet prompt segment to the official logo branding color of #512bd4 ? You used the same color as the node segment which causes them to run together. (I know you don't have the node segment in your theme.)
Also, purple seems to be the color of dotnet, probably because it is the color of royalty. :)
blood 0:43 sugar in the prompt? ((( this is amazing
Very curious to know what your specs are for your machine?
If you are navigating inside windows explorer and write cmd in the path bar, it will start the terminal from there. If you have windows 11 and default you command line prompt to windows terminal it will show up then.
@Edit, just found out windows 11 has the command prompt in the right click menu in explorer anyway. But this tip works on older windows versions as well.
What a cool tip! I found out this works as well for "bash" (in my case, this opens a Bash shell in WSL Ubuntu) and "pwsh" (for PowerShell)
When you where in the Json file, how did you add the colour picker instead of writing the hex value?
Thank you @Scott!! I may switch to this (from ConEmu) if I can find a way to have a transparent background like in default Windows terminal. Is there a way to have that, meaning no blur but true transparency?
Or just switch to Mac 😆
I will check!
@@shanselman 🙏
@@shanselman Tyvm
Thanks Scott, you are a godsend! By the way, I felt you were squinting when looking at your monitors - maybe its too dark :-)
Lol no I need my reading glasses. Plus I have beady eyes. 😂
Hello sir , please make a video on how we can use external adapters on Kali Linux wsl in Windows?
Hey Scott (or anyone else that might know)... I love the Windows Terminal. I would like to take advantage of it for work but I am in an odd situation. Our machines are locked down. I have a local admin account but we are not allowed to log in (directly) with that account. We are only allowed to log in with our domain account and run applications (as needed) as an administrator. I can't seem to run specific tabs or Windows Terminal as an administrator. Am I just being ignorant and missing something obvious (wouldn't be unheard of)? Is this something that may be supported eventually?
In either case, I do use Windows Terminal on my personal machine and appreciate your videos.
Try gsudo
I use the Split Horizontal and Split Vertical all the time.
I always reach for the command palette ctrl + shift + p and type 'split' though, because I can't remember the shortcuts for those and I don't want to use the mouse. Too lazy to setup new shortcuts.
ohmyposh is nice but really slows down the reactiveness of the commands...
My 2022 New Year resolution is to level up my ZoomIt ninja skills to maybe half your level. 😀
Hey Scott! I ran across this again as I was searching for some info. It's not the first time I've seen it, but it's always worth a re-watch.
I do have a question, though I'm not certain that it's an actual Windows Terminal Question. I was doing a bit of work with setting up some code signing and SSH keys using gpg4win in PowerShell. I needed to work with the KeyId for a particular key, so I assigned it to a PowerShell variable for reference during the session. NP there. The following day, I was going to work with a different key and when I started typing to assign the key ID to a variable (same name - $keyid), the terminal gave me a lovely Intellisense style suggestion to complete the assignment, complete with the ID of the key I was originally working with. I suppose this is really two questions...
1. Is that a function of PowerShell or the WIndows Terminal?
2. While I love this sort of Intellisense/Cache thing for most things, I'd like to be able to either clear it manually, or ideally, exclude a given command from it. Can you point me to a resource about how this works and how to control it?
Cheers, and as always, thanks for your amazing content!
Which version of windows terminal do you recommend/use from the store? One may install 'Windows Terminal' - currently v 1.11.3471.0 or 'Windows Terminal preview' - currently Version 1.12.3472.0.
Nice Video.
Why is your ZoomIt so smooth? When I use it I begin to see the pixels and text quality drops a lot.
Update to latest?
@@shanselman I downloaded it like 2 days ago after seeing your super long, lenghty, verbose, detailed video to setup the terminal :). But I'm on windows 10 (maybe the reason?) I'll teak with it a little more to see if I can figure it out.
Thank you !
yeah, following hyperlinks and enabling CRT simulation is absolutely pro
May I know the name of the software you used for recording in your videos? I notice you can draw arrows live to show us where we should look at. That's the feature I'm looking for.
I think he’s using ZoomIt
Any tips on how to broadcast same command to multiple tabs/panes (e.g to apply same command to multiple ssh sessions)
Could you please share the annotations tool you are using for drawing rectangles and arrows?
Looks like he’s using zoomit for the zoom/drawing/arrows.
Awesome video. What software do you use for recording?
OBS!
@@shanselman Hello Scott, thanks for your content, it is fantastic. Which program do you use for zoom, draw rectangular box in the screen? ZoomIt?
I'd LOOOOOOOOVE to be able to make ONE TAB an admin tab. Or a setting so that future console windows (like those opened by VS) can be added as tabs to an existing window.....
I have a question: Is it possible to change the character set of a specific size with a monochrome picture to display the picture inside of a block of character on the Windows terminal?
hey i have a question, this laptop/computer you are using, you have many linux distros installed in there, do they take ram or its just using disk space when you are not using them? And how much space does the ubuntu distro takes after install? Also how much Ram is in your system? thanks.
Just disk space. A few gigs and then they grow as I use them.
hey Scott, would you please tell me, how you switch your mouse pointer into a selector and shape maker...
Use ZoomIt from sysinternals
Is there a fix yet for slow responsiveness of ctrl+c when terminal is getting flooded with input?
Wow! Its going to take me a while to retrain my brain to do Ctrl + L instead of writing "CLS"!!
is this version only available in windows 11, cause i don't see these options in my terminal in windows 10 and my PC is not yet eligible for Windows 11 upgrade?
There’s a couple things keeping me from switching from conemu to this.
Currently I am unable to open a new prompt in the same directory as the one I’m currently in. Is this possible?
Any tips how to open terminal or pane as admin if you are logged in as normal user? Run as admin asks adm creds two times and then says "cannot do".
Hey Scott, wsl2 in windows 11 terminal download very slow. Like when I try to download some packages it's very slow to compare Linux terminal.
When I launch the windows terminal by the command "cmd", I dont get the "+" sign or the dropdown on the title bar as you have. Im on Windows 11
Scott i just wanna say: you are amazing. That's all. That's the comment.
the other cool tip is quake mode WIN+`
Scott, great content, how do I start terminal always as an administrator?
The ultimate retro effect would be a degauss button :-)
How to use error highlighter in terminal and the ai autocompleter?
how do you get your command history popping up in terminal? was hoping you would explain that one!
How about a whole video on my custom powershell profile including that?
@@shanselman that would be amazing! I’ve taken plenty of pointers with oh my posh, thanks to you… but every time I see your prompt showing suggestions, I’m like ‘that!! what is that??’ 😉
This terminal has been getting better and better with lots of potential; too bad it's Windows only
Is there a real benefit to the terminal transparency? I can see obvious accessibility benefits to almost all of the display customisations, settings etc. that are available... except that one. Don't get me wrong - 'Because it looks cool and you can impress your friends' is a totally legit reason for it being there, but I was just curious.
I think it's mostly just because it looks cool. One possible use; you could set the desktop background of servers to certain colors by function or role (for example, production web server is red background). Transparency of even a maximized terminal could help to remind you that you're working on a dev / stage / production server.
Why did you use double backslashes when specifying the path to the shader?
Because \ when inside a string mark the start of an escape sequence, so
is a new line for example, but \\ is a single backslash
@@shanselman Ah okay I thought that might be the case but wasn't sure. Thanks Scott!
@scott When I open Vs developer tools as Admin, the old cmd promt comes up instead of windows terminal. Any solutions for this?
Take a look and see if a developer tools are in your terminal menu? Or try installing terminal preview. We should have a detector that that notices the developer tools and add some of the menu item in Terminal. And soon in 11 Terminal will be the default.
Interesting...When I do alt-Setting...the defaults file states on line 1:
"// THIS IS AN AUTO-GENERATED FILE! Changes to this file will be ignored."
great knowledge!, hey scott are you looking to hire as i m looking for a job, been c# developer. i couldnt find better way to reach you than youtube directly, appologies just in case.
How OhMyPosh works on a lot of videos/demos, but whenever one tries to install and setup it`s all about bugs?
I tried "oh-my--posh" to change the terminal prompt. But the prompt became very slow (~ 20-60ms delay). I like the beautiful terminal prompt but cannot compromise on speed. And I have i7, 16 GB RAM and SSD.
Likely is the git segment.
@@shanselman Thank you for your response. I noticed that themes "Paradox" and some other themes were slower. I switched to default theme "jandedobbeleer" and it is much better.
can share the pwsh $profile file ?
Only thing I want is to be able to open tabs as admin without some hacky solution like gsudo
gsudo works well for me. How is it hacky?
@@babsNumber2 it works exactly right it's just hacky in that I have to add it myself in the first place.
@@memoid7777 Oh okay. I see
I wish PowerShell wasn't so slow
Does anyone else fail to get notifications when Scott posts a new video?
I have subscribed to “all updates” but I do not get notified by RUclips and the videos do not show up in the notifications list (bell icon).
I get notified for other channels, just not Scott’s.
Wow I’ve never heard that from anyone else.
@@shanselman it is strange. I disabled/ re-enabled channel notifications, which I’ve done before, but will cross my fingers it works this time.
Thanks for the great content! My terminals is working very well for me.
Microsoft is embracing and extending Windows with Linux-like features ...
Oops I spotted Matrix path of neo
One day, windows will just be vscode.
VSCodebook?
They are still using JSONs for configuration instead of an actual configuration system? Kind of weak.
I'll wait till they get an actual config system. That's so bodgy.
pov: you are noob