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The useAcrylic setting creates a background with an effect in the style of Windows Aero graphics. Just put in "Consolas" or remove the line altogether for the default font.

#Wsl windows terminal code#

Which requires installing the Fira Code font first. There are many more options you can add in the specific profile section for Ubuntu to customize the terminal. Paste the guid as the value for the "defaultProfile" key which should be somewhere near the top of the file. Just find the one that matches Ubuntu, and copy its guid: That should open a text editor showing you the config file in JSON format.Īll the available terminal types are in the "profiles" array. To make it the default session being started, you can edit the app settings: Starting the program should create a tab with a Powershell session.įrom there, you can click the "+" icon and start a "Ubuntu" terminal.

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Let's find and download it from the store:

I think the strange title might indicate they could make it preinstalled with Windows in the future as a replacement for the old cmd.

#Wsl windows terminal free#

There is a promising terminal emulator available through the Windows Store (for free of course) called "Windows Terminal (preview)". Or you could start a new tab (with Ctrl+T) and pick the WSL task for that tab. For instance you could modify the "startup" task to always get into a WSL terminal:

#Wsl windows terminal install#

When that's done you have to install one of the Linux distributions that are available from the Windows Store.Īs we're most familiar with the Debian world we like to pick and install Ubuntu:Ĭmder should have a new possible "Task" in your settings. I usually just type "feature" in the start menu to find the Windows Features list.įind and install WSL from it then reboot when asked: It has to be enabled as a Windows feature first. environment like Node or PHP without their Windows quirks - For instance the differing syntaxes to delcare and use environment variables.

Run GUI applications from Linux without using a virtual machine and X redirections inside SSH.

Pipe Linux binaries output into Windows binaries or vice versa, all of the executables from your Windows PATH environment variable are also available in WSL.

Start an SSH server on any Windows machine for remote access (WSL does not have Windows administrative access, though).

Make use of a package manager with the entire chosen distribution library of packages available for you to install - For instance a lot of infosec tools usually run on Linux.

(Though you may run into compatibility issues for some very specific use cases)

Install and run classic Linux services on demand such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache+PHP.

Install the Linux version of Docker, which is much faster and predictable than the current version intended for Windows.

Run a fully featured zsh terminal with Ohmyzsh.

WSL makes legacy solutions like Cygwin completely obsolete. The general performance of binaries is pretty much native, but all the IO system calls have to be translated first and depending on what you're doing the slowdown can be significant although overall I have to say it's quite impressive. It's kind of a reverse Wine, if you will. This is possible through a recent feature called WSL which basically allows binaries compiled for Linux to run on Windows. Git for Windows sets you up with bash but what if you want to use zsh or install packages as if you were really running Linux?

#Wsl windows terminal full#

If you installed the full package you should have immediate access to various GNU programs ported to Windows.įor the sake of completeness, let's quickly present another popular terminal emulator: Hyper - Electron-based so quite memory-hungry but with GPU acceleration, tons of options and pretty fast overall. It's simple, looks good, provides tabbed consoles and allows for splitting panels.

There's a terminal emulator called Cmder that not only fits really well with Git for Windows but actually provides a package with Git for Windows in it (they call it the "Full" version). One nice alternative command line comes with Git for Windows which not only comes with Git as you would expect, but also more GNU tools (including grep) and a bash environments It's true that Powershell offers a unified environment of powerful commandlets for all of your administrative tasks but sometimes you'd just rather have the likes of grep or sed available. Nowadays a command line SSH client can be installed as a feature in Windows, and before that there were versions of it compiled for Windows anyway. In the past your Windows SSH client of choice would probably have been Putty. We tend to work with the terminal a lot and some of our workstations run Windows.