How to Customize Windows Terminal: Change Theme, Colors, Background Image & More

May. 12, 2021

Customize Windows Terminal by Changing its Theme

The Windows Terminal can run Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Bash commands in the same window. It’s also highly customizable, which means you can change its background and foreground color, font, and more. So today, we will see how you can easily customize Windows Terminal on your PC using the ‘Settings’ option. You can download the app from the Microsoft Store (Free) if you haven’t already.

Note:Originally, you needed to use a highly technical and long-winded process to change themes and color profiles in the Windows Terminal. However, Microsoft has since introduced a GUI option that requires little technical know-how to customize the app.

So now that you know how to change the theme on Windows Terminal, we suggest you go ahead and customize the UI to your heart’s content. Meanwhile, both the Command Prompt and Windows PowerShell also allow users plenty of customization options. So if either of those is your command line tool of choice, check out how you cancustomize the Command Promptand thePowerShell in Windows 10by following our tutorials. For more power-user options, check outhow to use God Modeandhow to use PowerToyson a Windows 10 PC.

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