Windows Terminal Preview 1910 Released With Updated UI, Dynamic Profiles and More

Microsoft has released a new update to the Preview channel of Windows Terminal, bringing an updated UI, dynamic profiles and new launch settings, alongside a bunch of bug fixes. Users wanting to try out the new-look Windows Terminal Preview 1910 can do then from the Microsoft Store. Information technology will announced as build v0.6 in the 'About' popup.

Updated UI

First off, the WinUI TabView has been updated to version 2.2, bringing better color contrast, rounded corners on the dropdown and tab separators. As well, when too many tabs fill up the screen, you can now scroll through them with buttons, just like browser tabs on Chrome or Firefox.

Dynamic Profiles

With the latest update, Windows Concluding will be able to automatically detect whatsoever Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution on the machine along with PowerShell Cadre. Whatsoever such installation following the update will make them automatically appear in the profiles.json file. In case you don't want a profile to appear in the dropdown carte du jour, y'all can just set "hidden": true.

Cascading Settings

The latest build of the Windows Terminal also ships with a defaults.json file with all of the default settings. Information technology can be accessed by holding downwardly the 'Alt' cardinal and clicking on the settings push in the dropdown bill of fare. While users won't exist able to make any changes to this file, they'll still be able to add your own custom settings to the profiles file as usual.

New Launch Settings

Users can now also set the Terminal to launch equally maximized or set its initial position. Setting the Concluding to launch equally maximized tin be done by adding the global setting launchMode, which accepts either default or maximized.

"launchMode": "maximized"

The Terminal'south initial position tin be set by adding "initialPosition" as a global setting with the desired pixels as X and Y coordinates, separated by a comma. Multiple monitors may require users to set negative coordinates.