Hello amazing people ๐
Hope you all are doing great. I am here with my first blog post of 2021 and it started with an astounding recommendation that I made to one of the fellow clouders @jonnychipz. I remember I added that Azure Functions GIF to my Terminal immediately as Marc was demonstrating it on one of the live streams.
So I thought, why not compose an article to show how to do it! I will begin with what Windows Terminal App is.
Windows Terminal App:
So what is Windows Terminal App, in Microsoft's own words " Windows Terminal is a new, modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL." Here are some key features:
- Multiple tabs
- Beautiful text
- Settings and configurability
- Last but not the least, it's open source ๐
Feel free to check it out on GitHub:
Customization:
Let's dive into customizing the black & white terminal and bring some personal touch to it.
Now to add a logo or a gif to your terminal, navigate to the Settings:
The settings should open up as a JSON file:
Now to add a logo or GIF, add the backgroundImage
to your 'defaults' property, this way it will appear on all of the terminals (CMD, PowerShell, WSL etc.)
"backgroundImage":"https://rishabincloud.s3.amazonaws.com/nobg.png"
But hey, this doesn't look neat, it just appears as a background! So now we will add few more properties for the backgroundImage:
"backgroundImageAlignment" : "bottomRight",
"backgroundImageOpacity":1,
"backgroundImageStretchMode": "none"
So here is how your settings file should look like:
And now if we look at the terminal:
Looks pretty eh!
Bonus:
Here is the link so you can add the Azure Functions Mascot to your terminal:
backgroundImage":"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/marcduiker/azure-functions-university/main/img/zappy-university-192.gif
Thanks to Marc.
Also, you can customize the color scheme, I have been using WSL for a while now, here is the Ubuntu theme that I am using with it ๐
// Color Scheme: UbuntuLegit
"background": "#2C001E",
"black": "#4E9A06",
"blue": "#3465A4",
"brightBlack": "#555753",
"brightBlue": "#729FCF",
"brightCyan": "#34E2E2",
"brightGreen": "#8AE234",
"brightPurple": "#AD7FA8",
"brightRed": "#EF2929",
"brightWhite": "#EEEEEE",
"brightYellow": "#FCE94F",
"cyan": "#06989A",
"foreground": "#EEEEEE",
"green": "#300A24",
"name": "UbuntuLegit",
"purple": "#75507B",
"red": "#CC0000",
"white": "#D3D7CF",
"yellow": "#C4A000"
}
See you in the next blog and you can follow me on Twitter @rishabk7.