Discussion on: Adding MSL Shell to Windows Terminal

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Hi Ganessh, nice stuff man.

I have set up my windows using cygwin and zsh. Now how do i added this to my windows terminal?
this is my setup now, but new zsh is not added to the Windows Terminal

"profiles": {
        "defaults": {
            // Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles.
        },
        "list": [{
                // other cli here
            ...,              
            {
                "guid": "{d0299d37-cdfb-4222-917b-df79328d786b}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "zsh",
                "source": " C://cygwin64/bin/zsh -l -i"
            }
        ]
    },

Ganessh Kumar • May 21 '20

Could the double slash after C: might be the cause? Have you tried with C:/cygwin64/bin/zsh -l -i?

Faisal Morensya • May 21 '20 • Edited

It did not work.
The thing is the new terminal menu under new tab not showing.
Im using your json config also not working.

Your Profiles object also different from mine.

Ganessh Kumar • May 21 '20

github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob...

Both the formats are valid according to their documentation.

Faisal Morensya • Jun 2 '20

Hi Ganessh,
Its been a while, below json configuration worked for me, thanks for the post, keep it up man!

{
    "closeOnExit" : true,
    "colorScheme" : "Campbell",
    "commandline" : "C:/cygwin64/bin/zsh -l -i",
    "cursorColor" : "#085336",
    "cursorShape" : "vintage",
    "fontSize" : 9,
    "guid": "{d0299d37-cdfb-4222-917b-df79328d786b}",
    "historySize" : 9001,
    "icon" : "C:/cygwin64/Cygwin-Terminal.ico",
    "name" : "Cygwin",
    "snapOnInput" : true,
    "useAcrylic" : true
}