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How to Customize Windows Terminal Like a Pro – Guide

Terminals are always there for big things. Almost every developer or programmer uses it daily to perform some tasks. There are many options for developers like GNOME, Hyper, etc., and Windows Terminal is one of them. The new Windows Terminal is a modern, powerful, fast and efficient terminal for users of command-based tools and shells such as WSL, Cmd and PowerShell.

The Windows Terminal has some features that make it stand out such as it has multiple tabs, UTF-8 character support, GPU-accelerated text rendering engine, customization and configuration. Also, it’s open source, which makes it really interesting. Every developer needs to modify the tools to get the most out of them at one level. Customization and configuration come. Today we are going to learn how to customize your terminal to make it better and run efficiently by adding some hotkeys.

Customize Windows Terminal Like a Pro (2022)

We have detailed instructions for customizing Windows Terminal, from how to add acrylic effect to apply Cascaydia font to your command line experience. We added steps for PowerShell and Ubuntu (WSL). You can expand the table below and go to any section you like.

Apply Acrylic Effect to Windows Terminal in Windows 10/11

First, open the Microsoft Store and update Windows Terminal to the latest version.

Then open Windows Terminal and go to Settings.

Here, go to “Windows PowerShell” under “Profiles” in the left sidebar and switch to the “Appearance” tab.

Scroll down and enable the “Acrylic” option. Just below, you can also adjust the opacity of Acrylic. I kept it at 70%, but you can set the value to your liking. Finally, click “Save” to confirm the changes. You have successfully taken the first step to customize Windows Terminal.

Repeat the process for CMD, WSL and other shells you use on your Windows computer. It will add an acrylic effect to the Windows Terminal.

Add Cascaydia Cove font to Windows terminal

After adding the Acrylic effect, you need to install Oh My Posh compatible fonts. I installed Cascaydia Cove Nerd Font, which works fine with this third-party customization tool. You can click here to download the font.

After downloading the font, unzip it using applications like 7Zip or WinZip and install all the fonts. You can select all fonts -> right click on them -> Show more options -> Install for all users.

Now, open Windows Terminal and go to Settings. Here, switch to the “Windows PowerShell” section in the left pane and go to the “Appearance” tab as we did above.

Here, choose the newly downloaded font you want to use with the Oh My Posh prompt. I selected “Caskaydia Cove Nerd Font”. Now, click on “Save”.

Repeat this process for all shells you are using on Windows 10/11, including WSL/Ubuntu.

Customize PowerShell in Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh

Now that you’ve added the Acrylic effect and applied a compatible font, it’s time to install the Oh My Posh prompt. To do this, open Windows Terminal with administrator privileges. To do this, look for Terminal after pressing the Windows key and click on the “Open as administrator” option in the right pane.

Go to PowerShell window and run below command to install Oh My Posh prompt. Post this, press “A” and press Enter to allow installation.

Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser

Next up, run the command below to import the Oh My Posh profile. If you get any prompts, press “A”, followed by “Enter” to proceed with the installation.

Import-Module oh-my-posh

After that, you need to install Terminal Icons. Shout out to Brandon Olin, who developed Terminal Icons for PowerShell. Just run the command below and allow the installation to complete. Make sure you are running Windows Terminal with administrator privileges before running this command.

Install-Module -Name Terminal-Icons -Repository PSGallery

Now to check if everything is working fine, run the command below. that will bring up the new prompt.

oh-my-posh –init –shell pwsh –config ~/jandedobbeleer.omp.json | invoke-expression

So far everything is working fine, but you need to make Oh My Posh your default custom prompt. To do this, run the command below. It will give you a path, which you need to write down or copy and paste into Notepad.

Then navigate to that path and you will find a file “Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1”. Open it with Notepad, add the lines below and save the file. Now, you can close the Notepad file.

Set-PoshPrompt -Theme jandedobbeleerImport-Module -Name Terminal-Icons

In case the ps1 file is not there, you can easily create one. Right-click the “WindowsPowerShell” folder and choose New -> Text Document.

Rename it to Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1. Make sure there is no .txt extension in the final. The file name must end with .ps1.

Now open the file with Notepad and add the two lines below and save it. You can close Notepad now.

Set-PoshPrompt -Theme jandedobbeleerImport-Module -Name Terminal-Icons

Go back to the PowerShell window and run the command below to reload the profile.

$PROFILE

Finally, close Windows Terminal and open it again. You will now find that Oh My Posh is set as the default prompt in PowerShell. With the Acrylic effect, new fonts, icons, glyphs, and the Oh My Posh prompt, PowerShell in Windows Terminal looks beautiful.

Customize WSL/Ubuntu in Windows Terminal with Oh My Posh

After adding the Acrylic effect and installing the fonts, it’s time to customize the WSL with Oh My Posh. Here it is how to go about it.

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