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Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

You're reading from   Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Maximise productivity of your Windows 10 development machine with custom workflows and configurations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800562448
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux 4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal 5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination
6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability 7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability 8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal 9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL 10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros 11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL 13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers 14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding custom profiles

Windows Terminal does a great job of automatically discovering PowerShell installations and WSL distributions to populate your profile list with (and updates it when new distributions are installed). This is a good start, but in addition to launching an interactive shell, a profile can launch specific applications within a profile (as the last section showed with htop). In this section, we'll look at a couple of examples, but the main purpose of them is to show ideas beyond just launching shells to give inspiration for how you might customize your Windows Terminal configuration.

If you have a machine that you regularly connect to via SSH, then you can smooth your workflow by creating a Windows Terminal profile that launches directly into SSH. Open your settings from the profile dropdown (or by pressing Ctrl + ,) and add a profile in the list section under profiles:

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