Windows 10 Terminal comes with a lot of customization options. So you can now use emojis in your terminal for example, and do things like this: Fully customizable This doesn’t only make the terminal faster, but also adds support for UTF-8 characters and Unicode. So what is really cool is that Windows Terminal is using GPU Accelerated Rendering. But if you want to open Windows Terminal with on the left side an SSH connection to a server and on the other side a PowerShell session, then you will have to use the following command in PowerShell: wt -p 'VPS01'` split-pane -p 'Windows PowerShell'Īt the end of the article, I will give more examples of how you can split the screens and other useful key combinations. You can easily split the open tab into multi-screens with the key combination Alt + Shift + D. If you are working with multiple servers at the same time it’s really nice to have both SSH shells next to each other. Especially the spit-screen was a feature that I have really been waiting for. This is probably the best feature of the new terminal, multiple tabs, and split-screen. They have created a roadmap to Windows Terminal 2.0, which you can find here at GitHub.

While we will take a look at some of those new features, keep in mind that the team will release a new update every month, starting in July. Some are just nice to have while others can really make your work a lot easier.

The new Windows Terminal comes with a lot of new cool features. In this article, I will guide you through updating your Windows Terminal beta release to the latest stable version, explain the different install options, give you some tips, and of course we are going to take a look at the customization options. Besides that the new terminal just looks nice, the ability to use tabs, split-screen and customizing makes it really awesome.

Now, a year later, the first stable version is out: Windows Terminal 1.0Įver since the beta release I have been using the Windows 10 Terminal almost daily for all kinds of tasks, like PowerShell, SSH connections, Azure Cloud, etc. Back in 2019 it’s was still a beta release, but I already loved it. A year ago I have written about the new Terminal for Windows 10.

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