{"id":4742,"date":"2022-02-27T13:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T05:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2022-02-27T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T05:41:45","slug":"windows-terminal-preview-1-13-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=4742","title":{"rendered":"Windows Terminal Preview 1.13 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Windows Terminal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the preview build of the Windows Terminal, which contains the latest features as they are developed. The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its major features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8-character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive terminal application for command-line users. It includes many of the features most frequently requested by the Windows command-line community including support for tabs, rich text, globalization, configurability, theming &amp; styling, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Terminal will also need to meet our goals and measures to ensure it remains fast and efficient and doesn&#8217;t consume vast amounts of memory or power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><strong>Updated settings UI design<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Auto-elevate profiles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new profile setting has been added called&nbsp;<code>elevate<\/code>&nbsp;that allows you to automatically launch a profile as elevated (as Administrator). When set to&nbsp;<code>true<\/code>&nbsp;and you are using an unelevated window, opening this profile will open an elevated window containing that profile. Otherwise, when set to&nbsp;<code>false<\/code>, this profile will open in the current window regardless of elevation. You can also hold&nbsp;<kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>&nbsp;and click a profile in your dropdown to open it as Administrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-14-1050x550.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4745\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, they added the&nbsp;<code>elevated<\/code>&nbsp;argument to the&nbsp;<code>new-tab<\/code>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<code>split-pane<\/code>&nbsp;actions, allowing you to launch a new profile as elevated using an action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Examples to enable this feature:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code\">\/\/ Profile setting\n\"elevate\": true\n\n\/\/ New tab action\n{ \"command\": { \"action\": \"newTab\", \"elevate\": true }, \"keys\": \"ctrl+shift+1\" }\n\n\/\/ Split pane action\n{ \"command\": { \"action\": \"splitPane\", \"split\": \"auto\", \"elevate\": true }, \"keys\": \"alt+shift+e\" }<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New rendering engine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They dded a new profile setting,&nbsp;<code>experimental.useAtlasEngine<\/code>, that when set to&nbsp;<code>true<\/code>&nbsp;will enable a new text rendering engine. While the performance improvements aren\u2019t noticeable, they can be seen in certain edge cases, most notably when presenting text with a large number of colors. In these cases, this new renderer will draw at the display refresh rate regardless of screen resolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-16-1050x550.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4747\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/windows-terminal-preview-1-13-release\/#new-rendering-engine\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Installing and running Windows Terminal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>Note: <\/strong>Windows Terminal requires Windows 10 2004 (build 19041) or later<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Microsoft Store [Recommended]<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Install the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/terminal\">Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store<\/a>. This allows you to always be on the latest version when we release new builds with automatic upgrades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-15-1050x550.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4746\"\/><figcaption>Microsoft Store<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other installation methods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Via GitHub<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For users who are unable to install Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store, released builds can be manually downloaded from this repository&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/terminal\/releases\">Releases page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download the&nbsp;<code>Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_&lt;versionNumber&gt;.msixbundle<\/code>&nbsp;file from the&nbsp;<strong>Assets<\/strong>&nbsp;section. To install the app, you can simply double-click on the&nbsp;<code>.msixbundle<\/code>&nbsp;file, and the app installer should automatically run. If that fails for any reason, you can try the following command at a PowerShell prompt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code\"># NOTE: If you are using PowerShell 7+, please run\n# Import-Module Appx -UseWindowsPowerShell\n# before using Add-AppxPackage.\n\nAdd-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_&lt;versionNumber>.msixbundle<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: If you install Terminal manually:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Terminal will not auto-update when new builds are released so you will need to regularly install the latest Terminal release to receive all the latest fixes and improvements!<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Via Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/winget-cli\">winget<\/a>&nbsp;users can download and install the latest Terminal release by installing the&nbsp;<code>Microsoft.WindowsTerminal<\/code>&nbsp;package:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code\">winget install --id=Microsoft.WindowsTerminal -e<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/terminal\/\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/terminal\/<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/terminal\/panes\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows\/terminal\/panes<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/terminal\">https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/terminal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows Terminal This is the preview build of the Windows Terminal, which contains the latest features as they are developed. The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its major features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,11,63],"tags":[255,790,871],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-news","category-windows","tag-console","tag-terminal","tag-windoes-terminal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}