Any way to "pin to taskbar"?

[leolozes]

First of all thanks for this great terminal!
The only "problem" I have is that I didn't find a way to pin it to the Windows 10 Taskbar.
I did use the utility to pin it to start and it works nicely, but when I try to pin it to the Taskber either it doesn't work or when I click, it opens in another icon.

Any ideas on how to do it? Thanks!

[goreliu]

open-wsl.exe is only a starter of mintty.exe, so you can pin mintty.exe instead of open-wsl.exe to Taskbar, but it's a little difficult.

Create a shortcut of bin/mintty.exe, and then change the properties of the .lnk file, append /bin/wslbridge -t bash to the target (it won't read etc/wsl-terminal.conf), and change the icon to open-wsl.exe, then pin this .lnk file to Taskbar.

[leolozes]

Great! Worked beautifully, thanks!

[accesspc]

A big thanks from me too!
My solution to "Pin to taskbar":

• Create a shortcut of open-wsl.exe in the same directory
• Rename it to WSL
• Modify link so that target would have additional " -l" at the end
• Right click and Pin to taskbar

This way the taskbar icon is alway clear, once you click it it spawns a new window. If you have multiple WSL windows, they are grouped under a new taskbar icon and the pinned one is always free and ready to spawn another window with a single click.

[shashankgandham]

@goreliu After following your solution, it runs default ubuntu terminal and not wsl-terminal

[ssshake]

Looks like I reported a duplicate of this yesterday. I'm wondering instead of providing instructions to do this could a solution be to provide this shortcut in the zip itself, save people the trouble?

[goreliu]

I fixed it in v0.8.10.