Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance
Continuing our foray into Windows Terminal customization, let's take a deep dive into changing the terminal's appearance. Broadly, there are two main parts to this customization, both of which we'll cover in this chapter: customizing Windows Terminal's UI and color scheme, and shell-specific customizations that use this color scheme.
Customizing the UI and color scheme can be done entirely via the settings.json
file, which we learned about in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we'll cover the schemes
section of this file, which controls the color schemes, as well as some custom options in the profiles
section for changing fonts, translucency, and more. We'll also cover where to download community color schemes, and how to write our own.
When customizing each shell, the steps are a bit more varied; each shell has its own customization options and libraries. We'll cover some useful options...