Windows Terminal, "Comfort Shell - Ubuntu" created next to "Ubuntu" profile

[wdolek]

I was following steps in README, and on fresh Windows 11 I started with windows-dev-config which installed WSL with Ubuntu. After this step, I had Windows Terminal Profiles: "PowerShell", "Ubuntu", "Command Prompt" (and few others I hid).

Once windows-dev-config finished, I started "Ubuntu" to create my user account in it. Then I proceeded with wsl-comfort.

There was no error during install, however at the end I ended up with duplicate entry in Windows Terminal profiles:

• PowerShell
• Ubuntu
• Command Prompt
• Comfort Shell - Ubuntu ← this was added

I tried to run both Ubuntu and Comfort Shell and I can't spot a difference - same color scheme, same font face & size. Both use "Ubuntu" WSL distro, color scheme is the same, only difference is caret, Ubuntu uses █, while Comfort Shell |.

        "defaults": 
        {
            "font": 
            {
                "face": "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono",
                "size": 10
            }
        },
        "list": 
        [
            {
                "guid": "{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "PowerShell",
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.PowershellCore"
            },
            {
                "colorScheme": "Comfort Shell Dark",
                "guid": "{a83fae36-6b7f-5ede-890f-3696bf751646}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Ubuntu",
                "source": "Microsoft.WSL"
            },
            {
                "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\cmd.exe",
                "guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Command Prompt"
            },
            {
                "commandline": "%SystemRoot%\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
                "guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
                "hidden": true,
                "name": "Windows PowerShell"
            },
            {
                "guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}",
                "hidden": true,
                "name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
                "source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
            },
            {
                "guid": "{b9471bcd-1d41-0698-65e5-57b480a18442}",
                "hidden": false,
                "name": "Comfort Shell - Ubuntu",
                "source": "ComfortShell"
            }
        ]

I can see there's "C:\Users\le_me\appdata\Local\Microsoft\Windows Terminal\Fragments\ComfortShell\comfort-shell-ubuntu.fragment.json" containing:

{
  "profiles": [
    {
      "font": {
        "face": "Cascadia Mono NF",
        "size": 13
      },
      "commandline": "wsl.exe -d Ubuntu",
      "guid": "{b9471bcd-1d41-0698-65e5-57b480a18442}",
      "startingDirectory": "~",
      "hidden": false,
      "colorScheme": "Comfort Shell Dark",
      "icon": "😎",
      "name": "Comfort Shell - Ubuntu",
      "cursorShape": "bar"
    }
  ],
  "schemes": [
    {
      "brightRed": "#F38BA8",
      "cursorColor": "#A6E3A1",
      "selectionBackground": "#45475A",
      "brightYellow": "#F9E2AF",
      "brightWhite": "#A6ADC8",
      "cyan": "#94E2D5",
      "white": "#BAC2DE",
      "brightBlue": "#89B4FA",
      "yellow": "#F9E2AF",
      "brightPurple": "#CBA6F7",
      "brightBlack": "#585B70",
      "blue": "#89B4FA",
      "name": "Comfort Shell Dark",
      "purple": "#CBA6F7",
      "brightGreen": "#A6E3A1",
      "background": "#1E1E2E",
      "red": "#F38BA8",
      "brightCyan": "#94E2D5",
      "black": "#45475A",
      "foreground": "#CDD6F4",
      "green": "#A6E3A1"
    }
  ]
}

Ubuntu profile:

Comfort Shell profile:

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This is not about any bug or issue. I'm just questioning presence of second Windows Terminal profile using same underlying WSL distro. Should I hide "Ubuntu"? Should I remove "Comfort Shell"?

[AmelBawa-msft]

@wdolek Comfort Shell adds its theme through a Windows Terminal fragment, which creates a new profile instead of editing the "Ubuntu" one. Both launch the same distro, and all the setup (zsh, starship, tools) lives inside the distro, so you get that either way. Comfort Shell just layers on the theme, Nerd Font, icon 😎, and bar cursor. 😊

That said, out of the box the two shouldn't look identical: the stock Ubuntu profile uses WT's default font (no Nerd Font icons) and the classic maroon scheme. I noticed your settings.json has "colorScheme": "Comfort Shell Dark" on the Ubuntu profile. Did you customize your default/Ubuntu profile at some point? That would explain why they match on your machine 🙂

But to answer your question, since both point at the same distro, it's totally fine to remove (or hide) either one 😉

[wdolek]

Thanks @AmelBawa-msft, it's possible I changed color scheme once I started playing with WSL - Ubuntu default ones is less readable and I suppose I clicked first which was comfortable to me 😅 - which, I can now see, caused my confusion.