Make Windows Terminal look amazing!

I will show you how to customize your Windows Terminal (could also be used in Linux or Windows 10). We set up color schemes, fonts, and a cool-looking prompt that you can use for any shell (like PowerShell, zsh, or bash in WSL2) #Windows #WindowsTerminal #WSL2

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction
01:14 - Why use the Windows Terminal
02:23 - Use and configure the Windows Terminal
05:12 - Teleport (Advertisement-*)
05:58 - Use Nerd-Fonts
08:12 - Color Schemes
09:44 - Prompt for all OS and Shells
13:01 - Customize your Prompt

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[gregbek]

timestamp 15:46 - colormap for bash, if you don't have/want zsh, the following bash shell function produces identical output.
function colormap() {
for c in {0..255}; do
let "d=($c+3)%6"
printf "\x1b[48;5;%dm \x1b[49m\x1b[38;5;%dm%03d \x1b[0;37;40m" $c $c $c
if [ "$d" -eq "0" ]; then echo ""; fi
done;
echo
}

[simonbrown]

Great video, I'm so glad this popped up on my feed.
Several hours well spent configuring and customising this across my WSL environments and standardising my terminals. Also led me to install and configure exa which I wasn't aware of but is great.

A warning to anyone that uses Defender for Endpoint and Attack Surface Reduction rules; starship.exe is blocked by "Block executable files from running unless they meet a prevalence, age, or trusted list criteria". I had to disable this to get it working. I'm hoping that MS implement a way to whitelist applications in the future.
I also wish there was a way to install Starship without Chocolatey, I don't really want to run/use Chocolatey, but I couldn't figure out how.

[liquidpower]

loving this windows dev ops WLS2 windows Terminal stuff. as a network eng who likes to run windows and game, its really cool being able to have a good Terminal and having all the linux tools with a great GUI

[iamsantanubanerjee]

I always love your customizations!

Edit: More than that, I love the starship prompt <3

[HyRax_Aus]

Windows is slowly becoming Linux every single day.

[dedpossum]

Thank you again for you videos Cristian! Your thoughts on oh-my-posh vs. starship? Personally I like oh-my-posh but it appears that starship-prompt offers more options.

Some timestamps that were especially helpful ( I will use these later this week, I will have a new laptop to configure )

- 15:05 character maps
- 16:00 distro logos

[logixthedev]

Thank you Christian, your customizations are VERY nice! What theme are you using in VSCode?

[cambertoku]

Great content! Thanks for the ideas to customize the shell prompt and keep up your good work! ;)

[cherrieb]

Excellent Terminal Customs Idea’s
Thanks

[t-roy]

Christian, you're an amazing dude. Thanks for your videos.

[kodosensei]

Woooww Broo!! AWESOMEEE I LOVE your customizations 💻✨

[sanjeev]

I knew it had to be starship prompt when you said I use it everywhere. 😁

[davidneilson]

great video, I've just trolled through the font sets but cannot find the curved corners you have used for the terminal prompts (in your starship.toml file, under the format section) could you advise the ascii code you used??

[jehadmohammed]

I really enjoyed the vid! What VS code theme were you using?

[scarletscarlet]

Oh my this prompt customization is a rabbit hole... but thank you for introducing this

[Silvermist]

Thanks for making this how to video! How does one do "run as different user" with Win Term?

[sunnynehar]

Superb content, Hi Christian how did you customize your Warp terminal with the same purple texts/fonts? if you have a video could you point me to it.

[Gusan]

Thank you very much, greetings from Argentina 😊

[dragon]

Awesome and with the pane config, can we save it in case we restart the terminal?

[iix]

Awesome! Thanks! All working perfectly...

P.S. But at beginning my icons was smaller then yours - I fixed it with the differen font type - JetBrainsMono Nerd Font.