

You can find out more about the Windows Terminal update here. After all, Windows Terminal is still in preview. To open a new tab after launching the Terminal, just click the + button on the tab bar or press Ctrl+Shift+T. This feature also needs a little work as the UI is a bit clunky for now. The new feature allows you to move the different tabs in your window around, much like a browser. The latest update also comes with the ability to re-order tabs. But for now, the feature is pretty decent considering you can have as many terminals as you want running side-by-side, and there are shortcuts that let you switch between the terminals quickly and resize each pane as you like. To split a pane vertically, which means the line splitting the two screens will be vertical, you need to select the pane you wish to split and press the alt + shift + + keyboard combination. Microsoft plans to introduce this feature with a future update.

Use Ctrl +, keyboard shortcut within the app to go there directly. You can only open a new pane with your default profile, that means if you wanted to have CMD and Ubuntu running side-by-side with PowerShell, that won’t be possible just yet. Open Windows Terminal and go to Settings > Startup. Microsoft published a preview version of Windows Terminal, an upcoming multi-tab console and terminal application for Windows on the Microsoft Store. That means you can now split your Terminal window into multiple panes and have different terminals running side-by-side.įor now, the feature is a little limited. Windows Terminal now has support for multiple panes with the latest updates. Preview Windows Terminal users can now open a profile from a dropdown menu as a side-by-side pane in the current window. You can open a new pane either to the right using alt + shift +, or to the bottom using alt + shift +. And today, the company is releasing another new update to introduce some new features. Microsoft has been making some serious updates to Windows Terminal lately.
