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mskyaxl / wsl-terminal

Terminal emulator for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
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Way to run it directly in "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" #82

Closed alesmenzel closed 6 years ago

alesmenzel commented 6 years ago

Hello, let me first thank you for this amazing emulator.

Question: Is there a way to run it directly from "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" with theme (colors, fonts, etc.)?

This is how it looks when opened through open-wsl.exe (on the right) vs the default bash on the left. PS: using the agnoster theme for oh-my-zsh (Great tutorial on how to change the theme)

If I change the .bashrc to open zsh on startup it has broken colors like:

ezpuzz commented 6 years ago

First off "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" is the deprecated version of WSL. You should uninstall that and use the newer supported version on the Microsoft Store. After that you should use chsh within wsl to set your login shell as /bin/zsh then run the 6-set-default-shell in the tools folder inside the wsl-terminal download. The official Ubuntu start menu entry will then open zsh in the windows console and open-wsl.exe will open zsh in mintty. the file tools/4-create-start-menu-shortcuts.js will add a start menu entry for you to open wsl in this mintty which replicates the functionality of the ubuntu shortcut but with a better terminal.

alesmenzel commented 6 years ago

Thanks for the reply, do you happen to know if it is possible to run this shell in VS Code as default shell? If I add the path to open-wsl.exe to VS Code then it opens new window instead...

goreliu commented 6 years ago

You can change the colors here:

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