Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Now Avialable

Brink · Aug 27, 2019

The time has come for another update to the Windows Terminal! Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 is now available in the Microsoft Store and on GitHub!

Settings Updates

Profiles.json is Now in LocalState

The profiles.json file has been moved from the RoamingState folder to the LocalState folder. This change prevents settings from automatically roaming across your devices. This fixes issues such as having a font referenced on one machine that didn’t exist on the other, which would cause the Terminal to crash due to the unidentified font.

Tab Title Customizations

In our v0.3 release, we introduced the "tabTitle" setting, which allowed users to overwrite the tab title with a custom string. In v0.4, we’ve changed this functionality. Now, by default, the tab title will be set to the profile name, rather than the executable’s path. If you’d like to change what is used as the default title, setting "tabTitle" will replace the profile’s name in the tab.

This functionality is slightly different from before, because this is setting the shell title, rather than overriding the displayed title. This behavior aligns with the behavior used in the original conhost. For clarification, the shell title is the title provided by the command line application that’s being used within the instance of the profile. This means that the command line application will still be able to overwrite the tab title, which is a change from the v0.3 release.

Note: The shell title is overridden in WSL distributions because the default shell configuration in many distros sets the window title before every prompt. You can change this behavior in your bash or ZSH profiles in /etc.

Settings Warning Messages

Now, when there is an issue with your profiles.json file, the Terminal will display an error message describing what is incorrect. If your profiles.json file cannot be read properly, the Terminal will use its default settings, however it will NOT overwrite your existing settings file.

Key Binding Updates

AltGr is Now Detected

You are now able to have both AltGr keypresses along with "Ctrl+Alt" key bindings! The AltGr keypress is now detected before the key binding functionality, thus making it available for users.

Opening the Tab Dropdown

You can now use a key binding to open the tab dropdown. The default key binding that is shipped with this release is "Ctrl+Shift+Space".

⭐ Info: For a list of all available key bindings, check out the documentation here!

Note: If you have previously installed the Terminal and would like the new default settings, you will have to delete your current profiles.json file and relaunch the Terminal. This will generate a new settings file with the default settings. You may want to move your current profiles.json file to ensure you keep a copy of your current preferences. We are actively working on improving this experience!

Copy Updates

New Global Setting: Copy on Select

"copyOnSelect" has been added as a new global setting in the profiles.json file. By default, this setting is set to false. When set to true, the clipboard will copy once a selection has been made within the Terminal. If false, the selection will not be copied until further action is taken (such as using a key binding that calls the copy function). This experience aligns with that on Unix terminals.

HTML Copy

When you select a range of text and copy it to your clipboard, Terminal now writes the selected text to the clipboard as styled HTML. This will allow you to paste styled console contents to other applications such as Outlook, Microsoft Word, etc. This behavior differs from conhost in that the clipboard will always copy the HTML data along with the regular text, rather than defining when you want to copy the HTML data.

Accessibility Update

The UIA bounding rectangles are now properly aligned with the text ranges on 100%-scale displays. Bounding rectangles define the regions where text is displayed on the buffer inside the Terminal. This supports panes as well as improves accessibility!

Bug Extermination

Any key binding used for copy will be passed through to the underlying command line application if there is no selection active. Therefore, for example, if you are using "Ctrl+C" to copy, it will copy if there’s a selection. Otherwise, ^C sends SIGINT and interrupts the signal, as expected.

Icons will no longer flash when switching between tabs. Additionally, the Terminal will no longer crash if the icon path is invalid.

After opening the tab dropdown, clicking outside of it will dismiss the dropdown and hide it.

The Terminal no longer re-serializes the settings on launch, so your profiles.json file will no longer be reformatted on launch.

Top Community Contributors

We have loved working with the community to help improve the Terminal experience and we’d like to call out those who have especially made an impact!

Contributors Who Opened the Most Non-Duplicate Issues

richardszalay
wolf99
j4james

Contributors Who Created the Most Merged Pull Requests

j4james
fcharlie
metathinker

Contributors Who Provided the Most Comments on Pull Requests

mcpiroman
german-one
j4james

Feedback

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Kayla (@cinnamon_msft) or Rich (@richturn_ms) on Twitter. If you have any feature requests or have found any bugs, file them on GitHub!

Until next time!

Kayla Cinnamon
Program Manager, Windows Terminal, Console, & Command-Line
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Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/comma...-v0-4-release/

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Brink · Aug 27, 2019

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exodusprime1337 · Aug 27, 2019

windows xp installation and dual core am

could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx

Mithin_EJ · Aug 27, 2019

Preview pane doesn't work in Windows 10

Hi RuthZekowski,

Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Community.

Are you facing issue with all your files or any particular files?

Which version of Windows you are using?

Since when are you facing this issue?

The Preview pane shows the contents of certain files selected in File Explorer. For images, it is a thumbnail preview.

If you are unable to preview in File explorer, I suggest you to try the below steps.

Open a new File Explorer window and click the View tab from the ribbon toolbar.

Click Options, and then click Change folder and search options to open Folder Options dialog.

Check the Show preview handlers in preview pane box, and click/tap on OK.

Please reply for all the required information to help you further.

Hope it helps.

Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Preview v0.4 Now Avialable

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