windowsterminal

My Windows Terminal settings.

Usage

Background image

• Copy cloned background image to location in [user-dir]\Pictures\
  • If needed, fix-up hardwired path to user-dir in settings.json-file

Font

I like the Nerd Fonts, and use one of them in Terminal. For the font, I use "FuraCode Nerd Font Mono" (in the bundle "FiraCode Nerd Font"), because it has nordic characters; get it (or other Nerd Fonts) here: https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads.

The settings.json file assumes that the given Nerd font is installed. If not, your Windows Terminal will probably render certain characters weirdly.

settings.json

Clone, and do one of the following:

1. Setup hardlink to Terminal config settings file

Setup a hardlink to the directory where Terminal looks for its config file:

• git clone repo - in the following, we assume cloned into C:\src\windowsterminal
• Locate current settings.json in [user-dir]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal[...]\LocalState
• Rename current settings.json to settings.json.bak (make sure to delete original; from a non-Terminal shell, else it will recreate)
• Setup hardlink from cloned settings.json to where Terminal looks for it's settings - i.e., do something like the following - making sure to replace strings in [...]

mklink /H [user-dir]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_[somestring]\LocalState\settings.json C:\src\windowsterminal\settings.json

• Open Terminal, and check that it loads the profile without error

(Note - as of Oct. 2021, have seen cases, where WindowsTerminal overwrites the settings.json file, reverting that it's a hardlink. See #1.)

2. Manual deploy of settings.json

Manually copy the settings.json file to the directory where Terminal looks for its config file.

• git clone repo
• Locate current settings.json in [user-dir]\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal[...]\LocalState
• Rename current settings.json to settings.json.bak
• Copy cloned settings to settings.json in said dir.