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Add a Profile

More information can be found here.

To find your settings:

  • Win → %WindowsTerminalUserVariable%\LocalState\settings.json;
  • Open with your favourite text editor.

If you want to add a profile that wasn't generated automatically by Windows Terminal (Command Prompt, Powershell, WSL), you will need to generate a new Global Unique Identifier (GUID). To do so:

  • Open PowerShell;
  • Run new-guid;
  • Copy the output to the "guid" field of your profile in the JSON configuration.

Useful parameters:

  • "backgroundImage": you can use ms-appdata:/// instead of your environment variable to link an image file in your Windows Terminal folder;
  • "backgroundImageAlignment": stick your image to a tab corner ("bottomLeft", "TopRight", etc.);
  • "backgroundImageOpacity": sets the transparency of your image. Useful for text output to stay visible over the image;
  • "backgroundImageStrechMode": allows you to fill the tab with your background image in various ways ("none", "uniformFill", etc.;
  • "hidden": Hides the profile (useful when you want to copy your configuration on multiple PCs that don't always have all programs installed);
  • "historySize": Limits the terminal output to the number of lines specified;
  • "icon": Sets the tab icon of your profile;
  • "source": similar to the "commandLine" parameter. It acts as a shortcut command for Windows Terminal to open Microsoft apps;
  • "startingDirectory": Useful to start a WSL distribution in your home directory, for instance;
  • "suppressApplicationTitle": Set to true, the field "name" will always be displayed as the tab title.

You can find more parameters in the default settings:

  • Open Windows Terminal;
  • In the drop menu, click on Settings while pressing the Alt key.

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