

In addition to these, there is the usual crop of improvements that the firm details in its miscellaneous and bug fixes section. These include new appearance settings for unfocused profiles and the ability to type in just the key chords when adding keys to users’ actions.

Lastly, the Settings Ui is receiving a few updates. A new Split Tab feature accessed via right-clicking on the tab allows users to split an active profile into a new pane. The "movePane" and "swapPane" actions allow moving a pane across tabs or swapping them within tabs, respectively. The pane itself is being improved with a bunch of new features. While it defaults to opening a new tab, Users can hold ‘Alt’ to open the path in a new pane or the ‘Shift’ key for a new window. It also adheres to the pre-set windowingBehavior setting.Īnother nifty addition is the ability to drag and drop a directory into the ‘+’ button. The Preview version is also bringing changes to the behavior of the terminal when it is launched through the default terminal setting, with the offering now obeying the contents of the “Defaults” section in Settings and launching with no profile instead of the default profile. You can check out the documentation linked by the firm, including the list of tags here for features and here for axes. Speaking of text, the font object now accepts OpenType features and design-variation axes in the settings.json file. The setting resides in the settings UI on the Profile Appearance page, or can be set via “intenseTextStyle”. Intense text is also getting new styles that allow users to render intense text in both bold and bright, only bold, only bright, or no style. In addition to the visual effects, the firm is adding the ability to optionally minimize the terminal to the system tray, thanks to the addition of two new Boolean settings, with minimizeToTray sending the app to the notification area and alwaysShowTrayIcon allowing for the tray icon to be always visible despite the minimizeToTray setting. This brings a modern look to the offering, bringing a Windows 11-like effect. The first of the changes heading to Windows Terminal Preview is the addition of an acrylic effect for the terminal’s title bar, which can be enabled from the Appearance setting or by using "useAcrylicInTabRow": true as the global setting in the settings.json file. These include the ability to set the tool as the default terminal, the ability to edit actions from the Settings UI, and the default page of Settings. While most new features from the Preview version are making it to the stable one, there are a few omissions. With Preview version 1.11 now out, the firm is promoting Windows Terminal to version 1.10 for Windows Insiders first, before releasing it to all users. Microsoft today released Windows Terminal Preview version 1.11, bringing a ton of improvements to the modern terminal offering.
