If you want to further customize how you can summon the terminal, check out the new features we have added for global summon on our docs site.

The quake window will appear on the top half of your screen and can easily be dismissed with the same keyboard shortcut. Windows Terminal now comes with quake mode! Quake mode allows you to quickly open a new terminal instance from anywhere in Windows by typing Win+ `. 👉 Note: We are still working on improving this experience and any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated on GitHub! Currently known bugs are filed with the Area-DefApp label. We have also added this setting to the settings UI in Windows Terminal Preview. This setting is currently in the Windows Insider Program Dev Channel build and can be found inside the console property sheet. double click on PowerShell and it will open inside Windows Terminal Preview by default 😊). You can now set Windows Terminal Preview as your default terminal emulator on Windows! This means that any command line application will launch inside your selected terminal emulator (i.e. Let’s get into what’s new! Default terminal As always, you can install both builds from the Microsoft Store as well as from the GitHub releases page.

Happy Microsoft Build 2021 and happy 2nd birthday to Windows Terminal! This release introduces version 1.9 to Windows Terminal Preview and migrates Windows Terminal to version 1.8.

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