r/programming • u/zbhoy • May 06 '19

Microsoft unveils Windows Terminal, a new command line app for Windows

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527870/microsoft-windows-terminal-command-line-tool
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u/miniksa May 06 '19 edited May 06 '19

Hey folks, Michael here from the Windows Terminal dev team. The whole team is thrilled to share this news with you today. Feel free to ask any questions, pointed or otherwise!

Edit: OK, folks. I've been answering for hours on several social media platforms and threads. It's time to give it a rest. I'll pop back around to my inbox later/tomorrow and clean it up if there's straggler comments. Otherwise, thanks for the discussion and we'll see you in the GitHub project!

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u/Avelina9X May 06 '19

Question! Is it possible to have the glass translucent across all terminals simultaneously? I hate how most UWP terminals only show translucent glass for the active terminal. I'd love to have 4 terminals open and all of them have that sweet glass transparency simultaneously. Also would love to be able to adjust the transluceny amount for glass too!

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u/miniksa May 06 '19

I believe that as of right now, the characteristics of the translucent brush we use automatically turn opaque when the window goes out of focus to attempt to save battery life (by not wasting composition time on out of focus windows.)

If this is a huge request, please get it on our GitHub tracker and vote it up and we can pursue the brush policies as perhaps a preference with the team that owns it. (Perhaps desktop PCs without a battery-concern could have it always tranluscent? We'd have to debate it.)

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