How to install Windows Terminal on Windows 10 Home

3 min readJun 8, 2019

Why Windows Terminal ?

Tab support, Multiple-shell ( cmd, powershell, WSL) support, Display beautiful text with icon support and SUPER HILIGHT is this is the first console for Windows that support programming ligatures !

Install Linux for Windows (WSL)

Follow this post. If you need dotfiles, I have this one.

Windows Insider Program

Windows version 1903 is required for build terminal. You must join Windows Insider Program to get the update.

Setting -> Windows Insider Program -> Get Start

I stuck in this step for a day. Nothing happen after I linked to insider program. Already solve issue in this blog.

Update Windows version 1903

After you link account to Insider program. Update your Windows. You will get very very big 1903 update. It take very long time update with 2-3 times restart, just follow that.

Install Visual Studio 2017

Yes, 2017 NOT 2019. Download from this link. Install some modules below.

Desktop development with C++
Universal Windows Platform development
Graphics debugger and GPU profiler for DirectX
Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17134.0)

https://blog.codedamn.com/install-new-windows-terminal/

Build terminal

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/terminal.git
cd terminal
git submodule update --init --recursive
dep\nuget\nuget.exe restore OpenConsole.sln
OpenConsole.sln

Clone project from git. follow some steps above. When you execute OpenConsole.sln Visual Studio will lunched with this project.

set config to Release, x64 ( in case of 64 bit) wait until log stop run.
Close Visual Studio
execute OpenConsole.sln again, wait until log stop run.
From menu Build -> Deploy Solution
Wait ~10 min for build and Yes! Windows Terminal (Dev Build) will appear in Windows Start Button 🎉🎉🎉

I found some mystical issue here. I took 1–2 hours at night for deploy solution and always error. So I shutdown laptop and go to sleep. When I wake up, do the same steps last night and build success..

Add WSL shell, adjust hotkey, change font

My goal is using The new terminal + WSL. So I adjust some config to reach the goal.

Add WSL shell and set to default.
Change close windows hotkey from Ctrl+w to Ctrl+Shift+w because it conflict with Vim command.
Change font to Fira Code to enjoy with programming ligatures 😄

This is my gist. You can copy/paste to get effected above.

Done

Another long post. Hope you enjoy and happy weekend 😴😴😴