Terminal: how to set powershell as default and change the color of it?

Created on 7 May 2019 · 2Comments · Source: microsoft/terminal

how to set PowerShell as default? and how to change the color theme of it?
At the current time, I don't see any difference between this windows terminal and cmd.exe or PowerShell.exe...

At least, not as cool as in the film.

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JinLingChristopher

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how to set PowerShell as default?

Edit C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal*\RoamingState\profile.json. By default there will be two profiles with different GUID, change the value of "defaultProfile" to the GUID of PowerShell profile

how to change the color theme of it?

If you just want to see the fluent effect, change "useAcrylic" in PowerShell profile to true. There are several custom options, you call try them by yourself.

Robosky on 7 May 2019

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how to set PowerShell as default?

Edit C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal*\RoamingState\profile.json. By default there will be two profiles with different GUID, change the value of "defaultProfile" to the GUID of PowerShell profile

how to change the color theme of it?

If you just want to see the fluent effect, change "useAcrylic" in PowerShell profile to true. There are several custom options, you call try them by yourself.

Robosky on 7 May 2019

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how to set PowerShell as default?

Edit C:\Users\$USER\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal*\RoamingState\profile.json. By default there will be two profiles with different GUID, change the value of "defaultProfile" to the GUID of PowerShell profile

how to change the color theme of it?

If you just want to see the fluent effect, change "useAcrylic" in PowerShell profile to true. There are several custom options, you call try them by yourself.