The windows terminal is new sleek, fast, customizable and feature packed terminal. It is much more productive than previous Command prompt and PowerShell.
So, if you want to customize the Windows terminal then you can go to this post. The steps have been beautifully curated there.
So, let's get back to adding the Context Menu option
Perquisites
Windows Terminal icongithub.com/microsoft/terminal/raw/master/res/terminal.ico
β οΈ (I couldn't find the icon file in the installed folder)
Copy the downloaded icon to this folder
C:\Users\%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\
- Open Text editor copy and paste the following code into it and save as
.regfile.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\yourusername\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\terminal.ico"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\yourusername\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe\" -d \"%V\""
- Don't forget to replace
yourusernamewith yourusernamelike below.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\mishr\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\terminal.ico"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\mishr\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe\" -d \"%V\""
and save as whatevernameyouwant.reg.
- Run the what_name_you_want.reg file
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Top comments (2)
This does the trick. Thanks a lot.
Link for icon seems updated, here's updated one: github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob...
Yeah Thanks for the link. BTW the version of terminal automatically adds 'open in terminal' to the context menu.
I will suggest you to delete the previous created Registry.π