New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by ColinWielga » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 3:11 AM UTC

New Windows Terminal Preview
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Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by Spivak » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:19 AM UTC

Extremely impressive work! It looks stunning.

The WSL integration looks super cool, are you planning any other integrations like Docker, Hyper-V, SSH, or WinRM? Oher machine-local shells like ipython, or aws-shell would be sweet too but I understand not wanting to implement that last one.

I know you could just run some if these as a subprocess but there is some magic in 'Open IPython Tab'

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by lupinglade » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:22 AM UTC

The screenshots and the video sure look different.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by Analemma_ » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:38 AM UTC

lupinglade wrote: post #3

The screenshots and the video sure look different.

They freely admitted at the time that the video was what they eventually wanted the terminal to look like, not what it is now. And it’s version 0.2, I’d rather they get the fundamentals right first before adding all the visual flair.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by tropo » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:38 AM UTC

I see it supports background images now.

Who uses this? Why? Why is that worth the reduced readability?

I have a hard time wrapping my head around why such a feature would ever be implemented.

I guess... mischief? When somebody leaves their computer unlocked, you could set the background image to a screenshot of the terminal with a bunch of text. :-(

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by Analemma_ » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 4:41 AM UTC

tropo wrote: post #5

I see it supports background images now. Who uses this? Why? Why is that worth the reduced readability? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why such a feature would ever be implemented. I guess... mischief? When somebody leaves their computer unlocked, you could set the background image to a screenshot of the terminal with a bunch of text. :-(

I imagine it’s there to sort of show off, and prove that the terminal is finally hardware-accelerated (conhost.exe used GDI, which was CPU-only), where you get these features for free. There’s no reason to turn it on if you don’t need it’s though.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by kyriakos » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 5:14 AM UTC

tropo wrote: post #5

I see it supports background images now. Who uses this? Why? Why is that worth the reduced readability? I have a hard time wrapping my head around why such a feature would ever be implemented. I guess... mischief? When somebody leaves their computer unlocked, you could set the background image to a screenshot of the terminal with a bunch of text. :-(

I currently set my terminals to production servers on a different colour scheme as a warning to avoid doing something wrong accidentally. As soon as I saw this feature I thought I'd use it to put a giant alarm sign as background image for production terminals.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by nailer » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 8:54 AM UTC

Spivak wrote: post #2

Extremely impressive work! It looks stunning. The WSL integration looks super cool, are you planning any other integrations like Docker, Hyper-V, SSH, or WinRM? Oher machine-local shells like ipython, or aws-shell would be sweet too but I understand not wanting to implement that last one. I know you could just run some if these as a subprocess but there is some magic in 'Open IPython Tab'

You could probably just add ipython to settings.json.

Windows already comes with OpenSSH. Personally I prefer ssh separate from my terminal app.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by nailer » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

Have been building from git for a few months.

It's fast, supports Unix copy and paste, emacs key bindings (What bash uses by default), the config format is nice. You can definitely use it as a daily driver.

Re: New Windows Terminal Preview

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Post by ktpsns » Sat, Jun 22, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE -- this advertisting video is super cool and nerdy. Who could have thought someone could win a prize with a terminal in the 1990s, when everybody tried to get rid of terminals as hard as they could?

I wish we could have a modern feature rich terminal with real blurring background and powerful features on X11/Xorg/Qt/Gtk/"the linux world". Konsole (KDE) is amongst the best I know so far.