Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal settings.

Files

File	Installed to
settings.json	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json

What's configured

• Theme: Catppuccin Mocha (dark) / Catppuccin Latte (light), following the OS dark/light setting — consistent with fzf, nvim, and lazygit
• Font: CommitMono Nerd Font Mono 13pt (must be installed separately)
• Keybindings: vi-style pane focus (alt+h/j/k/l), ctrl+c copy, ctrl+shift+v paste, ctrl+shift+f find, and ctrl+backspace → sendInput "\u0017" (Ctrl+W). WT delivers Ctrl+Backspace as a native key event with a modifier that a terminal multiplexer (psmux/Zellij) drops when it forwards keys as a byte stream, so the shell can't distinguish it from plain Backspace. Emitting the bare \u0017 byte instead — the same byte Ctrl+W produces — survives any multiplexer and lands on the shell's backward-delete-word (readline/PSReadLine/fzf all bind Ctrl+W to it)
• Window restore: firstWindowPreference: persistedWindowLayout — WT restores the previous session's tab/pane layout on launch; falls back to the default profile on a fresh install with no saved layout
• Profiles: PowerShell 7 (default), Windows PowerShell, Command Prompt, Azure Cloud Shell, Debian WSL (machine-specific — ignored if not installed)

Prerequisites

Tool	Install
CommitMono Nerd Font	Not on winget — download CommitMono.zip from the Nerd Fonts latest release and install the *NerdFontMono-*.otf faces per-user

Notes

Installed via Copy-Dotfile (not a junction) because Windows Terminal writes back to settings.json when you change settings in the UI. After making UI changes you want to keep, copy the file back to the repo manually:

Copy-Item "$env:LOCALAPPDATA\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json" `
    "path\to\dotfiles\windowsterminal\settings.json"

Install

.\setup.ps1 -Module windowsterminal

Windows-only — skipped silently on Linux.

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Source: windowsterminal/README.md in the dotfiles repo.