https://stuartleeks.com/tags/windows-terminal/ Recent content in Windows-Terminal on stuartleeks.com Hugo en-us Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:31:17 +0000 https://stuartleeks.com/posts/windows-terminal-start-directory/ Fri, 09 Oct 2020 12:31:17 +0000 https://stuartleeks.com/posts/windows-terminal-start-directory/ <blockquote> <p>Cross-posted from <a href="https://wsl.tips/tips/windows-terminal-start-directory">wsl.tips/tips/windows-terminal-start-directory</a></p></blockquote> <p><a href="https://aka.ms/terminal">Windows Terminal</a> is the new Terminal experience from the Windows team. It&rsquo;s <a href="https://github.com/microsoft/terminal">open source</a> and iterating quickly. As a WSL user, a really nice feature is that it auto-detects the WSL distros you have installed.</p> <p>By default, when you launch Windows Terminal for a WSL distro it puts you in the <code>/mnt/...</code> path for your Windows user profile (e.g. <code>/mnt/c/Users/stuart</code>).</p> <p>As <a href="https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-desktop-wsl-2-best-practices/">this post</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/sferquel">Simon Ferquel</a> suggests: &ldquo;Fully embrace WSL2&rdquo;! In other words, use the file system in your WSL distro. When you embrace this mindset, having Windows Terminal put you in a mounted Windows path is less helpful - I like to have it default to my <code>HOME</code> directory for the distro.</p>