Below are profiles for a few common 3rd party tools for your reference.

If a 3rd party command line tool does not have a profile auto-generated into your settings.json file, you can add it manually. More information on this setting can be found on the Global settings page. To prevent a dynamic profile from being generated, you can add the profile generator to the disabledProfileSources array in your global settings. To hide a profile from your terminal dropdown menu, add the hidden property to the profile object in your settings.json file and set it to true. Regardless of whether a new shell is installed before or after your terminal installation, the terminal will create a new profile for the newly installed shell. To learn how to change your default profile, visit the Startup page.Ĭonfiguration: Light Theme Installing a new shell after installing Windows Terminal Install Ubuntu Terminal Environment on Windows 11 from Microsoft Store 3. Click on the Turn Windows features on or off application from the search results, as shown in the screenshot below. Type in Turn Windows features on or off to search the application to add WSL. Upon installing the terminal, it will set PowerShell as your default profile. Click on Windows 11 Start menu and click on the Search Box. These profiles are generated with the source property, which tells the terminal where to locate the proper executable. This makes it easier for you to have all of your shells included in the terminal without having to locate their executable files. Wt wsl.exe ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 -L 5900:localhost:5900 -L 8001:localhost:8001 did not find any official online resources explaining why this works, adjusting the suggestions in this answer, so I'm not sure whether this is supposed to work this way or if it's a hidden/unintentional feature that could break in future versions.Windows Terminal will automatically create Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and PowerShell profiles for you if you have these shells installed on your machine. 'commandline': 'wsl.exe ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 -L 5900:localhost:5900 -L 8001:localhost:8001 can now start the shell via a batch file, which runs using the below however, the downside is the new profile is shown in Windows Terminal's Profile Selection Menu:Īs shown in Option 1, the commandline option can include further parameters for the target shell, with the following working when called from a batch file: The commandline option also accepts arguments, which are directly passed to the shell on startup, allowing the direct usage of wsl.exe with an additional 'startup command': I found two ways, with both working so far:

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