Microsoft's official new terminal app for Windows, released May 2019.
Windows Terminal is the Terminal app for Windows made by Microsoft, released in May 2019. See the Windows Terminal GitHub
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Terminal Glyphs are not showing
this has been a problem for a while now, my windows terminal is not showing any glyphs or icons, instead a unicode box shows or even nothing... what do i do to fix it?
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i thought it would be the font but it is set to Cascadia…
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How to activate conda/mamba environment automatically on CMD terminal in Windows
Is there something like a profile that will activate mamba/conda automatically when I launch a command (cmd.exe) terminal in Windows?
I am using the new Windows terminal and also use WSL and Powershell there as well. I looked in the settings and I…
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How to start ssh with wt.exe and keep terminal colors
I have this shortcut
C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe --window 0 -p "Windows Powershell" C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe -noExit -Command "ssh webdev"
It works fine but the terminal opened doesn't have colors.
This is…
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Is there a way to activate colored output for Poetry in Windows Terminal?
I am asking this question because I have not found an answer before.
I recently switched to Windows Terminal and some commands that the "Command Line" or "PowerShell" used to send me with syntax highlighting, are now sent to me without.
Example:…
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How do I use an ANSI sequence to signify progress in Windows Terminal using Bash?
PowerShell has a Write-Progress cmdlet that would update the Terminal icon to indicate progress.
I would like to do the same in Bash (and NOT exec powershell)
I think it is doable from the link
PowerShell displays certain information using ANSI…
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Opening WSL2 distro in Windows Terminal and running a command using Command Prompt
I'd like to open a new (Ubuntu) WSL2 session in Windows Terminal and run a command in it using a script or just a single line of code in Windows Command Prompt.
It seems pretty hard to me. I only got to this:
wt -w 0 nt -p "Ubuntu" -d…
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Powershell v7 Text Background highlighting
So I set up my new laptop with both powershell 5.1 to powershell 7 and I just have this weird problem with powershell 7 where it highlights the background of the text which I just don't like.
I do not face this problem with powershell 5.1.
I tried…
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cmd.exe interprets ♪ as ? or ΓÖ¬ when reading .bat file on codepage 437
I wish to use the ♪ character inside a custom prompt for command prompt. This needs to be done from within my AutoRun batch file. chcp gives output Active code page: 437. If I type into the console via cmd.exe running on the Windows Terminal app…
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Unable to run command on Batch File
I have a batch file to open directories on Windows Terminal.
Currently there are 2 lines on my script:
cmd.exe /c wt.exe --window 0 new-tab --profile "RAN" --title "Components" --tabColor "#8AD8FF" --colorScheme "One Half Dark" -d…
Rene A
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PsReadLine: execute selection
I would like to be able to select some part of the text in my command (e.g. a path) and start it, so that explorer opens the directory, or file.
So far i have come up with the code at the end of the post, which works, but has some issues:
it only…
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how to update stdscr size with python curses after resizing the terminal
I tried searching everywhere on the internet, but nowhere did I find an answer that worked for me, so I'm asking a new question.
In my code, I'm telling curses to get the terminal size and update some variables according to it. On my first try, I…
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Is the debugger running in the new Windows Terminal app
When working on a console app, is there a way to tell if I'm debugging in the new Windows Terminal app? When I actually run the console app it doesn't run in Windows Terminal but when debugging (with VS2022) the debugger runs in the new Windows…
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How to access command history in Python shell on Windows Terminal Bash?
I sometimes want to experiment with Python code in the Python shell. In other languages (Haskell, F#) I'm used to be able to experiment in a REPL that supports command history.
I start the Python shell from (Git) Bash running in Windows Terminal:
$…
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How to make PowerShell look the same as in Windows Terminal?
If I launch Windows Terminal, which, in turn, launches an instance of PowerShell 7.2.6 it looks different than if I simply launch PowerShell 7.2.6.
The top image is Windows Terminal with a PowerShell tab. Bottom image is PowerShell by itself.
Not…
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Powershell and correctly quoting paths for command line tools
I have this program, Search everything, its a search tool. It has a command line tool that can be used to invoke a search without manually interacting with the GUI interface.
Its manual states that double quotes need to be escaped as well as paths …
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