How to Change Cursor Shape of Windows Terminal Profile in Windows 10


The Windows Terminal is a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application for users of command-line tools and shells like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations.

Starting with Windows 10 build 21337, Windows Terminal is now an inbox app.

You can select the cursor shape of a profile in Windows Terminal to be Vintage ( ▃ ), Bar ( ┃ ) (default), Underscore ( ▁ ), Double underscore ( ‗ ), Filled box ( █ ), or Empty box ( ▯ ).

If you select the Vintage cursor, you can set its height from 25 to 100 percent.

See also:

• What is Windows Terminal? | Microsoft Docs
• Cursor | Appearance profile settings in Windows Terminal

This tutorial will show you how to cursor shape of Windows Terminal profiles for your account in Windows 10.



Here's How:

1 Open the Windows Terminal app.

2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)

3 Click/tap on the profile (ex: "Windows PowerShell") you want to apply this to on the left side. (see screenshot below)

4 Click/tap on the Appearance tab on the right side.

5 Select (dot) the Vintage, Bar (default), Underscore, Double underscore, Filled box, or Empty box cursor shape you want under Cursor on the right side.

If you select the Vintage cursor, you can set its height from 25 to 100 percent. 25 is default.

6 Click/tap on Save to apply.

7 You can now close the Settings tab or Windows Terminal.




That's it,
Shawn Brink

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