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rectangle-terminalWindows Terminal

What's Windows Terminal?

Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Why you must use Windows Terminal as Default for Windows command line on your Windows?

Here of main feature of Windows Terminal:

  • Multiple Tabs and Panes

  • Multiple Profiles supporting a variety of cammand linke applications

  • Unicode and UTF-8 character support

  • GPU accelerated text rendering engine, so it provides better performance than the default Windows command line

  • Ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts

How to set Windows Terminal as Default Windows command line?

  • First you must install Windows Terminal, you can download it from Microsoft Store

microsoftWindows Terminal Or using Winget

winget install -e --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal
  • After finish install, open Windows Terminal and go to Setting (by Clicking down arrow in the top and click Settings)

Open Settings
  • Page Settings opened and Change "Default Terminal Aplication" to Windows Terminal (See Screenshot)

Default Terminal Aplication
Change to Windows Terminal
  • And Done

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