Is Alacritty buggy on Windows? Some issues I encountered include:

- full window refresh (ie - flashes white) when leaving/entering an Alacritty window
- incorrect text rendering, especially when using special characters or complicated strings like regex expressions
- incorrect text/background highlighting when leaving applications like neovim
- (seemingly) slow performance at times compared to Windows Terminal
- unresponsive sessions

#terminal #windowsterminal #alacritty #nvim #neovim

dnsproxy from Cisco Umbrella Prevents Windows Terminal from opening WSL2?

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/267398/in-ciscoamp-can-one-determine-how-long-the-scan-of-a-file-took-based-on-the-time

#WSL2 #cisco #windowsterminal #windows10 #stackexchange

Anyone else's Windows Terminal becoming super slow after a few days of running? I'm still using WSL1 without actual kernel and it's still ridiculously slow after a while.
#wsl #windowsterminal

With PrimalScript 8.1.187, you can run your script directly in Windows Terminal, thus enhancing your debugging capabilities.

#SAPIENTech #PrimalScript #PowerShell #pwsh #scripting #WindowsTerminal #debugging #VBScript #JScript #legacy

https://www.sapien.com/blog/2023/07/25/primalscript-and-windows-terminal/

When you are the one packaging fonts for distribution at work, sometimes accidents happen.

Downloaded from https://github.com/rewtnull/amigafonts/tree/master

#Amiga #Topaz #font #WindowsTerminal

Windows Terminal (Preview) supports "shell integration" that enables shells to tell the terminal which part is a "prompt", a "command", or "output" by the escape sequences.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/shell-integration-in-the-windows-terminal/

I made a script to add these escape sequences to your prompt while keeping your prompt customization. Just call this after the definition of your Prompt function to leverage some of the cool terminal features:

& PathTo/ShellIntegration.ps1

https://gist.github.com/mdgrs-mei/1599cb07ef5bc67125ebffba9c8f1e37

#WindowsTerminal #PowerShell

Feelings after 1 month of using #Mac for work development (mobile and .NET backend) instead of #Windows: iOS "Simulator" is much faster and more stable than #Android emulator. Also #Docker just works, instead of #WSL2 crashing every 15 minutes. I do miss the #WindowsTerminal (much better than anything I've found on Mac). Also #VisualStudio for Mac is missing critical features. Currently using #JetbrainsRider. Getting used to keyboard takes time, can't get HOME and END keys to work consistently.

This is for cycling lovers!🚴‍♀️

#PowerShell #WindowsTerminal

TIL: Windows Terminal can show a progress indicator on the tab and taskbar with escape sequences.

This might be doing too much but by hooking PSConsoleHostReadLine and Prompt functions, you can make an automatic spinner for any command.

https://gist.github.com/mdgrs-mei/244496f094abc367d46a64d6c7f7dd7e

#PowerShell #WindowsTerminal

Windows Terminal already supports tabs. Now, starting with version 1.18 (now in preview), it supports tab tearout, letting you move a tab into its own window. There's also experimental support for a right-click context menu, and other new features. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-18-release/

#WindowsTerminal #Windows #Microsoft

One more #WindowsTerminal tip. Remember I had four tabs open? However it was a bit inconvenient to remember which tab is which, thank gods JAWS announces a tab's number when you do Ctrl+Tab ("Open SSH Client, 2 of 4"). I knew that the second tab is my dump server. However, what if we could have meaningful titles? And you know what? We can! Press Ctrl+Shift+P to open command palette, start typing "rename", arrow down till you hear "Rename tab title...", type a new name and voilà! You have meaningful tab names.
If you are not blind, it's even easier: you need to click the needed tab, then right-click and select Rename Tab.

I'm just excited about the fact that #WindowsTerminal gave us blind folks the same abilities sighted people had for years. Now I'm running four tabs: a plain command line, a dump server, a refreshing RabbitMQ-based message queue and a MariaDB command-line interface, all in the same window, in a click of Ctrl+Tab.

Building your own Terminal Status Bar in PowerShell:

https://dev.to/mdgrsmei/building-your-own-terminal-status-bar-in-powershell-1j76

#PowerShell #WindowsTerminal

globalSummon action on the Windows Terminal is very handy, and it's still improving? Nice👍

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/8888

#WindowsTerminal

Oh, it's cool if status bar is coming on Windows Terminal.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/3459#issue-518488636

Until then, let's make our own with DynamicTitle PowerShell module😉!

#PowerShell #WindowsTerminal

If you're curious: The bug is that if a string that #WindowsTerminal identifies as a hyperlink ends at the exact line-width of the terminal, and the next line starts with valid characters for a hyperlink, those characters on the second line will be included in the link.

This is of course not correct behavior. 🤷‍♂️

Ah, sweet, sweet life of being a "special snowflake" - when you find a bug in #WindowsTerminal and you can't report it because your personal laptop (I'm out of office) is configured in ways that is not compatible with also being a Microsoft employee, so no path for submitting a bug works. 😅

Good thing you have random chat groups going outside of work, with people at least adjacent to the product in question, so you can bug (hah!) them about the bug anyway. 😜

Today in the #WindowsTerminal: I think I did it. I think that's the last PR ready to go. now I've just got a gauntlet of 6 code reviews to go through, but it works?

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/14935

@ilmai I can't really work on Windows without #WindowsTerminal with #PowerShell and #ohmyposh

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/install

https://ohmyposh.dev/

I am also a longtime #FarManager user, but that's a different story.

@JamesDBartlett3 Windows Terminal has 'Title length' tab mode that automatically adjusts the tab width 🙌!!

#PowerShell #WindowsTerminal