Resize the focused pane: Alt+Shift+Left, Alt+Shift+Right, Alt+Shift+Down, Alt+Shift+Up.Move pane focus: Alt+Left, Alt+Right, Alt+Down, Alt+Up.Create a new pane, splitting vertically: Alt+Shift++ (Alt, Shift, and a plus sign).Create a new pane, splitting horizontally: Alt+Shift+- (Alt, Shift, and a minus sign).Here are some other keyboard shortcuts for working with panes: These panes are linked to tabs, so you can easily have several multi-pane environments in the same Windows Terminal window and switch between them from the tab bar. You can click a pane and press Alt+Shift+D to keep splitting it.

The Terminal will split the current pane into two and give you a second one. Tabs are great, but what if you want to see multiple shell environments at once? That’s where the Windows Terminal’s Panes feature comes in. With Windows 10’s built-in SSH client, you can easily start SSH sessions from the Windows Terminal, too.

If you click the arrow to the right of the New Tab button, you’ll see a list of sessions you can open: Windows PowerShell, Command Prompt, Linux distributions like Ubuntu (if you have them installed with the Windows Subsystem for Linux), and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Shell. But it supports many types of shell environments. You can now have multiple types of shell environment in the same window. PowerShell and Linux in the Same Windowīy default, the Terminal will open PowerShell tabs. You can drag and drop the tabs to reorder them on the tab bar, too. You can use familiar keyboard shortcuts to move through the tabs, like Ctrl+Tab to switch to the tab on the right and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to switch to the tab on the left. To open a new tab after launching the Terminal, just click the “+” button on the tab bar or press Ctrl+Shift+T. Windows finally has a command-line environment with built-in tabs. Yes, the new Windows Terminal is even open-source. You can even get the source code on GitHub. You can download the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store. There’s even a new font, named Cascadia Code. With the new Windows Terminal, Microsoft was able to make changes like a more modern text layout and rendering engine with GPU acceleration and support for Unicode text-you can even use emoji in the Terminal. Copy and Paste “just work” when you press Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.

Features aside, the core of the console environment has been modernized. Windows 10 has a built-in terminal environment that’s all about backward compatibility, so these changes couldn’t happen to Windows 10’s built-in console environment. The new Windows Terminal is packed with useful features. It was originally announced at Build 2019, and Microsoft even prepared a flashy video to sell how awesome it is. Finally, a More Modern Terminal For WindowsĪt Build 2020 on May 19, 2020, Microsoft announced that the new Windows Terminal was stable and “ready for enterprise use.” Windows Terminal version 1.0 is here.

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