If you are interested in our bleeding edge features, you can also download Windows Terminal Canary from our GitHub repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now let’s learn more about Windows Terminal Preview 1.21!<\/p>\n Windows Terminal can now remember the contents of the screen and restore them on startup. To enable this, you will have to select “Open windows from a previous session” in your Startup settings.<\/p>\n Buffer snapshots are stored in Virtual Terminal-encoded text within your package’s local state directory. This directory is typically secured to your user account. Please be aware of these implications if you plan to enable this feature while using a portable distribution of Windows Terminal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The font face setting in your profiles’s appearance settings now support multiple fonts and you can use commas to list them out. Glyphs which are not found in your first font will be sought in all later fonts.<\/p>\n Below is an example of my PowerShell profile’s font face setting supporting Cascadia Mono NF and MS Gothic:<\/p>\n Speaking of fonts, we have added new settings to allow you to customize the OpenType Features and Axes of your font stack. We have also added settings to allow you to toggle whether you want to use built-in glyphs or full-color emojis (this one is my personal favorite \ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n Here is what emojis look like with the full-color emoji setting turned off:<\/p>\n Speaking of settings, we have also added four new settings to the Settings UI in your profiles’s advanced settings. These are settings that enable the right-click context menu, display scrollbar marks (which are now pretty stable!), automatically mark prompts, and allow you to reposition the cursor with mouse clicks (experimental.)<\/p>\n In the past, these settings could have only been adjusted via the If you look at the Rendering settings of Windows Terminal Preview, you might notice a few changes. Now that AtlasEngine is the default text rendering engine for Windows Terminal, we have removed the old DxEngine from Windows Terminal.<\/p>\n We have also added some new settings to let you control the behavior of the AtlasEngine via a setting that allows you to select the Graphics API and a setting to disable partial Swap Chain invalidation.<\/p>\n With the AtlasEngine, Windows Terminal can now render pixel-perfect block elements, box-drawing characters, PowerLine symbols, and high-fidelity textured shade glyphs.<\/p>\n This is enabled by default but you can turn it off by disabling “Built-in Glyphs” in the Settings UI (or by going to your We have rewritten our Input Method Editor (IME) integration from the ground up. This new rewrite properly blends into TUI applications by adopting their foreground and background colors. We also now use double underlines, wavy lines, and dashed lines to convey more information than ever before in more languages. Oh, and you can finally move the clause cursor during a composition \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n The image below is an example of our IME integration in action:<\/p>\n Here is an example of our IME integration blending into a TUI application like FAR Manager:<\/p>\n Our JSON Fragment Extensions<\/a> now support Custom Actions. Here is an example of a Custom Action that you can call.<\/p>\n If you place the snippet as a Shoutout to @DHowett<\/a> for this example and draculatheme.com<\/a> for the colorful theme \ud83e\udddb<\/p>\n We have refactored terminal panes to be able to host non-Terminal content. One application of this refactor is our new, experimental Scratchpad feature. This feature open up a textbox in a separate terminal pane. To enable Scratchpad, add the following as an After that Action is saved, you can invoke it in your Command Palette (as with every Action you make.) You can also assign a keybinding to that action as well if you do not want to open the Command Palette every time you want to use this Action.<\/p>\n Users can now load up an image as a texture by using the In @mrange<\/a>‘s example below, you can see that the @mrange<\/a>‘s final result looks like this:<\/p>\n \u26a1 Terminal distributions now come with an additional library, \u26a1 Marks are no longer an experimental feature! They also now reflow on resize and clear properly!<\/p>\n \u26a1 The Pane keybindings Alt+Shift++<\/kbd> and Alt+Shift+-<\/kbd> will now duplicate your active profile.<\/p>\n \u26a1 Terminal will now delete its in-box color schemes from your local settings file, unless you’ve modified them.<\/p>\n \u26a1 You can no longer edit the color schemes that come with Terminal without copying them.<\/p>\n \u26a1 We’ve added new color schemes: Dark+, CGA and IBM!<\/p>\n \u26a1 Profiles now default to the icons of their \u26a1 The Search box now animates in and out (thanks @tusharsnx<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \u26a1 We’ve restyled the Warning and Error displays around the font settings so that they’re more readable.<\/p>\n \u26a1 We’ve started laying the groundwork for action binding so please be on the lookout for any strangeness!<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b Double-clicking a word on the left side of the screen will no longer select parts of your right prompt.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b URLs that touch the right side of the screen or get resized are once again clickable<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b Double-clicking a word in a double-width or double-height row now actually selects the right word (thanks again @tusharsnx<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b During RTF export, we will now use a background color directive that Microsoft Word understands (#16035) (thanks yet again @tusharsnx<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b Our light color schemes no longer have a truly unusable selection highlight color (thanks @uoRetr0<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b We’ve fixed an issue where hyperlinks are detected in the wrong place if there’s a wide character (thanks @comzyh<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b You can no longer use the Settings UI to enter an initial size that is out of bounds (thanks @chingucoding<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc1b The experimental \ud83d\udc1b \ud83d\udc1b AtlasEngine will no longer occasionally crash when rendering characters in the Unicode Private Use Area.<\/p>\n Huge thanks to @j4james<\/a> for his help in the Virtual Terminal space!<\/p>\n \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f You can now set the window (tab, pane) title with \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f We now support \ud83d\udda5\ufe0f DCS sequences that span packets will no longer get sliced in half and–in so being–destroyed.<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25 Search highlighting was rewritten to be more robust, responsive, and performant (thanks again @tusharsnx<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25 The console hosting backend no longer spuriously repaints single characters (thanks yet again @j4james<\/a>!)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udd25 Moving the cursor around was surprisingly expensive so we reduced the cost of cursor invalidation!<\/p>\n Windows Terminal 1.21 Preview is packed with lots of updates. For a full list of changes and which versions of Windows Terminal those changes were backported to, please visit our page on the Windows Terminal GitHub repository for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n We love working with the community and recognizing those who made an impact for each release. Here are the community members who helped out for this one!<\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 Jvr2022<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 tusharsnx<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 Zeroes1<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 PhMajerus<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 tusharsnx<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 j4james<\/a><\/p>\n \ud83c\udfc6 FuegoFro<\/a><\/p>\n We would also like to give a special thanks to @hellocharli<\/a>, @Blake-Madden<\/a>, @wcruz-br<\/a>, and @berlintay<\/a>, for code quality, documentation, repository management, and dependency updates across the board!<\/p>\n We hope you enjoy this release of Windows Terminal 1.21 Preview! More information on these new features can be found on our docs site<\/a> and if you find any bugs or have feature requests, feel free to file them on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have any questions you can reach out to Christopher Nguyen (@nguyen_dows<\/a>) on X (formerly Twitter.)<\/p>\n Thanks again!<\/p>\nBuffer Restore<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nFont Fallback<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNew Font Settings<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nsettings.json<\/code> file but now they can also be adjusted in the Settings UI \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nRendering Updates<\/h2>\n
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settings.json<\/code> file and setting {profile}.font.builtinGlyphs to false<\/code>)<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2024\/05\/block_glyphs.png\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nCustom Actions in Fragment Extensions<\/h2>\n
{\n \"schemes\": [\n {\n \"name\": \"Dracula\",\n \"black\": \"#000000\",\n \"red\": \"#ff5555\",\n \"green\": \"#50fa7b\",\n \"yellow\": \"#f1fa8c\",\n \"blue\": \"#bd93f9\",\n \"purple\": \"#ff79c6\",\n \"cyan\": \"#8be9fd\",\n \"white\": \"#bbbbbb\",\n \"brightBlack\": \"#555555\",\n \"brightRed\": \"#ff5555\",\n \"brightGreen\": \"#50fa7b\",\n \"brightYellow\": \"#f1fa8c\",\n \"brightBlue\": \"#bd93f9\",\n \"brightPurple\": \"#ff79c6\",\n \"brightCyan\": \"#8be9fd\",\n \"brightWhite\": \"#ffffff\",\n \"background\": \"#1e1f29\",\n \"foreground\": \"#f8f8f2\",\n \"selectionBackground\": \"#44475a\",\n \"cursorColor\": \"#bbbbbb\"\n }\n ],\n \"actions\": [\n {\n \"command\": {\n \"action\": \"setColorScheme\",\n \"colorScheme\": \"Dracula\"\n },\n \"name\": \"Phone up Bram Stoker\",\n \"id\": \"Dracula.Draculize\"\n }\n ]\n}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n.json<\/code> file inside a Fragments<\/code> folder in %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows Terminal<\/code>, then you’ll be able to call a custom action called “Phone Up Bram Stoker” that sets your Color Scheme to the Dracula color scheme.<\/p>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2024\/05\/Custom-Action-in-Fragment-Extensions.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nScratchpad (Experimental)<\/h2>\n
action<\/code> in your settings.json<\/code> file:<\/p>\n{\"action\":\"splitPane\",\"type\":\"scratchpad\"}\n<\/code><\/pre>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2024\/05\/Scratchpad.gif\")
<\/a><\/p>\nexperimental.pixelShaderImagePath Setting<\/h2>\n
experimental.pixelShaderImagePath<\/code> setting. Huge shoutout to @mrange<\/a> for this contribution and example!<\/p>\npixelShaderImagePath<\/code> points to a PNG loaded as a texture which the shader pointed out by pixelShaderPath<\/code> uses.<\/p>\n\"defaults\": \n { \n \"experimental.pixelShaderImagePath\": \"C:\\temp\\cake.png\", \n \"experimental.pixelShaderPath\": \"C:\\code\\github\\windows-terminal-shaders\\cake.hlsl\" \n },\n<\/code><\/pre>\n![\"Image](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/commandline\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2024\/05\/mrangeExampleOfPixelShaders.png\"){kind=tracking}
<\/a><\/p>\nUsability Updates<\/h2>\n
Microsoft.Terminal.UI.dll<\/code>. Its .winmd<\/code> is not required.<\/p>\n.exe<\/code> files, if those can be determined. If you want your profile to have no icon, you must set the icon to \"none\"<\/code> (or check the “Hide icon” in Settings)<\/p>\nBug Fixes<\/h2>\n
repositionCursorWithMouse<\/code> setting now actually works after you’ve scrolled the screen.<\/p>\ndoskey<\/code> macros finally works on inputs with more than one consecutive space character.<\/p>\nVirtual Terminal Compatibility Improvements<\/h2>\n
DECSWT<\/code> (Set Window Title) in addition to XTerm’s OSC 2<\/p>\nDECAUPSS<\/code>, DECRQUPSS<\/code> and ACS<\/code>, which completes the 8-bit interface architecture.<\/p>\nPerformance Improvements<\/h2>\n
Top contributors<\/h2>\n
Contributors who created the most merged pull requests<\/h3>\n
Contributors who opened the most non-duplicate issues<\/h3>\n
Contributors who provided the most comments on pull requests<\/h3>\n
Thank you!<\/h2>\n
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