Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1671.0 update for Windows 10 June 18

Brink · Jun 18, 2020

Preview has finally diverged from Stable! Rejoice!

Features

Terminal can now pass raw modifier keys and other raw Windows input through to the connected application (#6309), bug fixes (#6431) (#6442) (#6461) (#6516) (#6517)

This enables a number of PSReadline key bindings and the modifier-hold behavior of FAR Manager, ZTreeWin, and tens of other applications that were using traditional Win32 input records.

COMPATIBILITY We have specified and implemented a new optional terminal input mode (specification)

Terminal emulators on Windows (VSCode, PuTTY, ...) can implement the feature as specified and produce full-fidelity Win32 input messages

Terminals that do not do so will not be impacted and should continue to function as normal.

You can now right-click on a directory and choose "Open Windows Terminal here"! (#6100)

However, due to a bug that's fixed in insider builds you can't do that from the "background" of that directory... (#6415)

We're hoping that once this bug fix is tested, we can get it out in earlier versions of Windows.

We've added a context menu that will appear when you right-click a tab!

You can now assign a color to a tab (thanks @gbaychev!) (#3789)

Tabs can now be renamed! (#5775)

Tab names override application titles and will be durable until cleared or closed.

You can now open a split pane from the menu by holding down Alt when you click it (#5928)

Settings

You can now specify the default profile by name (!) (#5706)

With this change, you no longer need to visit the GUID recycler to make a new profile. GUIDs are (pretty much) an implementation detail.

Terminal will no longer complain if you leave trailing commas in your "JSON" settings (#6312)

What even is JSON anymore?

Yes, we perhaps chose a poor configuration format given that we expected users to have to hand-edit it.

openSettings learned a new argument, target (per-binding, enum "defaultsFile", "settingsFile") (#6299)

target defaults to settingsFile

We've added a new default binding (finally) to open the defaults: Ctrl+Alt+,

You can now opt in to automatic startup with the startOnUserLogin setting (global, boolean, default false) (thanks @jelster!) (#4908)

The first time you toggle this to true, Terminal will ask again for your permission to become a startup task

If you're one of the 0% of people running terminal unpackaged, this won't work for you.

launchMode now supports "fullscreen" (#6060)

We've added support for a new tabWidthMode, "compact" (#5787)

When compact sizing is enabled, only the focused tab will display its title.

AltGr/Ctrl+Alt aliasing can now be toggled with the altGrAliasing setting (profile, boolean, default true) (thanks @lhecker!) (#6212)

We learned that while some people want Ctrl+Alt to act like AltGr, others don't. If you're one of the ones that doesn't: rejoice!

We now support fontWeight (profile, integer or enum, default "medium"/400) (#6048)

Command-line invocation, wt.exe

Terminal can now be launched (through the wt execution alias) --fullscreen or --maximized (#6139)

new-tab and split-pane now support --title (which predictably overrides the application title) (#6296)

wt learned the --version argument (#5501)

Terminal Basics

conhost (and therefore, to an extent, Terminal) is now a more faithful VT52 emulator (thanks @j4james!) (#4789)

We've added support for DECANM and a great number of VT52 input encodings.

conhost now supports 31 VT character sets (up from 2) and the DOCS sequence to switch to ISO-2022 mode (thanks @j4james!) (#4496)

There was also a persistent bug where tmux would occasionally Shift In/Shift Out for what appeared to be no reason, corrupting the display

Better support for character sets = better support for SI/SO = no more tmux graphical corruption!

You can now drag and drop snippets of text onto the Terminal and it'll do roughly what you'd expect (#5865)

Changes

UI

Right-clicking the negative space between the tabs and the caption buttons will now open the system menu (#6443)

Windows Terminal (Preview) is now Windows Terminal Preview Â¯\_(ツ)_/Â¯ (#6418)

Internal/VT/Conhost

We've changed the internal representation for 256-color text (thanks @j4james!) (#5834)

COMPATIBILITY It is no longer possible to combine VT and the legacy console API to "brighten" text.

If you're going to brighten dark colors, do it with FOREGROUND_INTENSITY or go full-VT.

Color conversions (24-bit/256->16) are now more efficient but do not take into account the active palette (thanks @j4james!) (#6358)

It turns out that color conversion was utterly broken for ReadConsoleOutputAttribute and nobody ever noticed, but that's also fixed now too. I expect that of the 0 people who noticed it was broken, 100% of them will rejoice that it's been fixed.

The dispatching of SGR sequences has been improved (thanks @j4james!) (#5758)

Internal work is underway to support a "command palette" (#6351)

Bug Fixes

The cursor will no longer obscure text, unless that text is the same color as the cursor (#6337)

Known issue: underlines are now drawn on top of the cursor. Follow #6499 for updates.

Text copied from the File Explorer's "Copy Address" option will now be pasteable (thanks @aldahick!) (#6146)

Win32-OpenSSH 7.7 is here to stay, so we decided to fix the issue that allowed it to break mouse input (#6485)

All tabs will now be created with a title so they stop looking so empty and vengeful (thanks @greg904!) (#6433)

The keen-eyed among you may have noticed that the 6x6x6 xterm color cube was totally horked. Thanks to @j4james, this egregious sin has been corrected (#5999)

Maximized terminal windows will finally put their tab strips right at the top of the screen. Unrelatedly, Paul Fitts called to let us know about this one weird law (#5881)

The maximize/restore button now more accurately tracks the state of the window (#5988)

Some of you thought it would be a good idea to close a tab while dragging it around. I couldn't figure out why you wanted to do that, but it will at least now not do something strange... (#5883)

Every time the window was resized, we'd lose track of another GDI handle. Now, we don't (#6229)

Our caption buttons now fade like everyone else's when you hover over them (thanks @AnuthaDev!) (#6303)

Performance

I'm going to let these changelog entries speak for themselves, as they've done the problem better justice than I could:

(@skyline75489) "Skip glyph shaping analysis when the entire text is simple" (#6206)

(@greg904) "Add fast path to til::bitmap::translate using bitshifts" (#6493) (#6501)

(@greg904) "Reduce latency with DXGI 1.3 GetFrameLatencyWaitableObject" (#6435)

(@greg904) "Throttle scrollbar updates in TermControl to ~one per 8ms" (#4608)

"Improve perf by avoiding vector reallocation in renderer clusters and VT output graphics options" (#6420)

Bug Fixes in conhost

A number of bugs were fixed in the traditional Windows Console Host--you won't see them in Terminal, but they'll be coming soon to a Windows Insider Build near you.

Cursor visibility will be restored when you're done with your IME (thanks @j4james!) (#6207)

The IME will no longer draw lines (underlines, overlines, leftlines, etc.) incorrectly (#6223)

If you launch conhost through a shortcut without an icon, we'll now go digging to find one for you (thanks @malxau!) (#6277)

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Source: https://github.com/microsoft/termina...ag/v1.1.1671.0

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Ahhzz · Jun 18, 2020

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

Open a new Explorer window.

Click View in the ribbon.

Click Options.

Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”

Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

jsfitz54 · Jun 18, 2020

Download Windows 10 TH/RS

@Drone : No link for 17134.5?

The April 2018 Update will be available as a free download beginning Monday, April 30.
https://blogs.windows.com/windowsex...-of-your-time-with-the-new-windows-10-update/

I don't know what Microsoft calls it but until has been pushed out the door officially, it's unofficial."
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According to this link and whether or not these have been Insider Preview Builds as @FordGT90Concept contends, I found this link: [Changelog] What's New in Windows 10 April 2018 Update (Version 1803) - AskVG

Windows 10 Build 10.0.17134 Changelog:Build 17134 was the 23rd Insider Preview build of Windows 10 released after Fall Creators Update. It was released on April 16, 2018. This new build arrived via new "RS4" (RedStone4) development branch.

Bug fixes and general improvements

Brink · Jun 18, 2020

Windows Terminal Preview v0.9 for Windows 10 scheduled for Feb. 11

Terminal v0.9 is scheduled for 2/11

This is the last release that will have new features before the v1 release

Subsequent releases are strictly for bug fixes and polishing

Features include:

Command line arguments

new-tab, split-pane, focus-tab

Examples:

wt -d . (opens a new Terminal in the current working directory)

wt -p "profile name" (opens a new Terminal with the given profile)

wt; new-tab -p "profile name"; split-pane -V -p "profile name" (demonstrated below)

Accessibility improvements

Community News

One Dev Minute Videos

Kayla has recorded some One Dev Minute videos about the Terminal

Three have been released so far:

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...20741409837056

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...26568349196288

https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/stat...51369883832324

Terminal v0.9 Work

Terminal Roadmap
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Source: Windows Terminal Status Updates . Issue #3600 . microsoft/terminal . GitHub

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Windows 10: New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1671.0 update for Windows 10 June 18

New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1671.0 update for Windows 10 June 18

New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1671.0 update for Windows 10 June 18

New Windows Terminal Preview v1.1.1671.0 update for Windows 10 June 18

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