The reasoning behind this change is that the color scheme is dark by default, but our window theme had been set to system. Additionally, we are defaulting Terminal to use dark theme, rather than following the system theme. We have modified some of the default colors in Windows Terminal for a more cohesive appearance. applicationTheme will apply the colors of the selected application theme to the terminal window unless other colors are specified.įull documentation on how to set up themes can be found on our docs site. The window object supports applicationTheme. You can modify settings that are applied to the window with the window object inside a themes object. unfocusedBackground will set the color of the tab row background when unfocused. background will set the color of the tab row background when the window is focused. The tabRow object supports background and unfocusedBackground properties. You can modify settings that are applied to the tab row with the tabRow object inside a themes object. unfocusedBackground sets the color when the tab is inactive and showCloseButton toggles the appearance of the close button on the tab. background will set the color of the tab background when the tab is active and will always show colors at full opacity. The tab object supports background, unfocusedBackground, and showCloseButton properties. You can modify settings that are applied to the tab with the tab object inside a themes object.

👉 Note: Themes are only editable using the JSON file, but they will appear in the Theme dropdown in the settings UI. Below are the objects each themes object can accept.

Themes is a global property that can contain a variety of themes objects, which will appear in the Theme dropdown on the Appearance page of the settings UI. It could be brown, it could be blue, it could be violet sky… 🎶 We’ve added even more customization possibilities with the introduction of themes. Screenshot from the Windows Terminal launch video Theming As always, you can install Windows Terminal and Windows Terminal Preview from the Microsoft Store, from the GitHub releases page, or by using winget.

The Windows Terminal team is back with another release for you! This release introduces version 1.16 to Windows Terminal Preview and updates Windows Terminal to version 1.15 with these new features.

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