Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings

One of the cornerstones of Windows Terminal is its configurability: it exposes a wealth of settings, each with a sensible default. In this chapter, we'll cover how this configuration system works, and highlight some of the more interesting settings.

We'll also take our first look at Windows Terminal's custom profile feature, which supports running arbitrary commands as shells. We'll add a couple of useful custom profiles; for example, a profile that can open terminal tabs to remote systems.

By the end of the chapter, we will have covered both basic and advanced settings in Windows Terminal. We'll be discussing the following topics:

• Introducing the settings.json file
• The settings file structure
• Useful global settings
• Useful profile settings
• Custom command-line profiles