

In this example I added it to the defaults. To get this effect, open the settings.json file and add these two lines to either the defaults or the profile that you wish to have this effect.

Windows Terminal Acrylic Look allows applications or the desktop background to shine through the console window. Windows Terminal Acrylic LookĪcrylic Look is a semi-transparent window effect with blur, like the Windows Aero effect from Windows 7. Let's look at some of the most common settings and start customising Windows Terminal. Schemes section allows you to define a colour pallet which can then be assigned to a profile or profiles. Profiles also has a list of profiles - one for each type of console window - PowerShell and Command Prompt are added as a basic starting point. Profiles has a default section which allows you to enter any setting values that are shared between all profiles. There are two main sections that are important - profiles and schemes.

As such the settings configuration page is not GUI'd yet - it's a JSON file which you can edit in VS Code.

Windows Terminal is still in an early development stage, although it is stable. Windows Terminal running PowerShell Windows Terminal Settings Windows Terminal's main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like PowerShell, Command Prompt, GIT-Bash and WSL.
