With hotkeys I can control where panes open. Now you can see the VS2019 prompt in the lower left corner. I'm doing this while Ubuntu is the focused pane. I'll then click the dropdown, hold ALT, and click on the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt that I've added to the menu. NET Core) and sitting in my podcast's source code directory.

The best way to get started with ZERO setup is to click the main Dropdown in Windows Terminal and hold down the ALT key while you click on a shell!īelow you can see Ubuntu/WSL2 on the left running htop, while on the right I'm running PowerShell 7 (powered by. There's great docs on setting up hotkeys for this, and you should. However, the Windows Terminal supports a multi-pane view at the Terminal-level, regardless of shell! There are several multi-pane options to choose from within a shell using something like tmux. 'Use Tmux!' you might shout, and that's a valid thing to yell if I was only living in Linux (using WSL2). The Terminal of course has Tabs so you can open many different shells at once within a terminal instance, often I want to do things like Split Screen/Split Pane. I enjoy customizing the Windows Terminal with a nice prompt. My love and appreciate for the new open-source Windows Terminal is well-documented.

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