Windows Terminal Preview 0.7 released

Windows Terminal a new terminal app for command-line users that has plenty of new features including tabs, a GPU accelerated DirectWrite/DirectX-based text rendering engine, profiles, and more. A new release, labeled as version 0.7, is out to the public.

Windows Terminal is fully open-sourced. Thanks to the new tabbed console, it allows organizing instances of Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux together in a single app.

The app comes with an icon that reminds of new Office and OneDrive icons, reflecting Microsoft's modern design view known as 'Fluent Design'.

Microsoft is releasing a new version of Windows Terminal via the Microsoft Store. The key changes of Windows Terminal Preview 0.7 include.

Panes

You are now able to split your Terminal window into multiple panes. This allows you to have multiple command prompts open at the same time within the same tab. If you are a Linux user, this feature may remind you of Tilix, a terminal app which has similar "panes" as its key feature.

Note: At the moment, you’re only able to open your default profile within a new pane. Opening a profile of your choice is an option will be available in a future release.

The following key bindings are included by default within this release to invoke panes actions:

{ "command": "splitHorizontal", "keys": [ "alt+shift+-" ] },
{ "command": "splitVertical", "keys": [ "alt+shift+plus" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction":"down" }, "keys": [ "alt+down" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction":"left" }, "keys": [ "alt+left" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction":"right" }, "keys": [ "alt+right" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "moveFocus", "direction":"up" }, "keys": [ "alt+up" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction":"down" }, "keys": [ "alt+shift+down" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction":"left" }, "keys": [ "alt+shift+left" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction":"right" }, "keys": [ "alt+shift+right" ] },
{ "command": { "action": "resizePane", "direction":"up" }, "keys": [ "alt+shift+up" ] },

Tab Reordering

You can now reorder your tabs. However, you are currently not able to reorder tabs when running the Terminal as administrator (it will crash if you try). Additionally, the UI of the tab will occasionally disappear when reordering. This issue is already being tracked on GitHub.

Suppress Application Title

You can now suppress all title change events that are sent from the application running within your Terminal. This means, you can have either the "name" or "tabTitle" of your profile appear in your tab without it updating. This implementation mimics the original "tabTitle" functionality released in v0.3. By setting "suppressApplicationTitle" to true, if you have "tabTitle" set, "tabTitle" will appear in your tab. Otherwise, the profile’s "name" will appear in your tab.

"tabTitle": "Ubuntu",
"suppressApplicationTitle": true

UI Improvements

The thick border around the Terminal window has been changed in this version. The border is now much thinner and will display your accent color when you have it set to do so in the Color page of the Settings app.

Note: If you don’t have this setting enabled, the border will be white.

 

Bug Fixes

• Here are some of the major bug fixes included in this release:
• Line endings when pasting behave properly!
• Alt+Arrow-Keys no longer print extra characters!
• When you’re scrolled up, pasting now scrolls down to the prompt when using "snapOnInput"!
• Quickly opening and closing tabs will crash less!

Cascadia Code Updates

Cascadia Code has received a number of improvements, including:

• Greek, Cyrillic, and Vietnamese are now supported
• A powerline (Cascadia Code PL) version
• There is also a version that ships without coding ligatures (Cascadia Mono)

You can get the updated Cascadia Code font files from the GitHub repo.

Grab the Windows Terminal Preview app here:

Windows Terminal on Microsoft Store