#Windows terminal preview how to#

commandline: This is the path of the executable to launch when opening the tab if inputting a full path, it requires escaping slashes with another slash (see screenshot below).name: The name that will appear on the tab in Windows Terminal.hidden: boolean value that sets the visibility of the profile in Windows Terminal.guid: insert a random guid here to identify the new profile (hint: use New-Guid in PowerShell to generate one).

I’m going to add a new section with some core information such as: In the profiles section there will be the existing profiles for the applications already available, such as Windows PowerShell, cmd, Azure Cloud Shell, and PowerShell Core. There are quite a few things to customize here but I will be working under the profiles section. Steps to open Settings in Windows Terminal

#Windows terminal preview how to#

Armed with these two new tools, I set out to add a profile that launched the preview version of PowerShell 7 and this blog will walk through how to add it yourself.įirst, in the Windows Terminal window, select the down caret to expose the currently available profiles, then select Settings. While exploring Windows Terminal, I really like the tab feature and being able to have multiple types of windows open that have different functionality. At the same time, I recently listened to the Azure DevOps Podcast episode where Kayla Cinnamon and Rich Turner from Microsoft explained how the new Windows Terminal came to be. With the announcement of PowerShell 7 Preview 5 being released yesterday, I decided I needed to download this preview version and check it out.