
Naturally, Microsoft said that it will continue publishing updates as it moves to a 1.0 release. Users can also turn on the Windows “acrylic” effect which introduces transparency – or not, as it’s up to the user to enable it and set the level of opacity. That allows users to configure a custom background image, much like a Windows theme. After saving, the Terminal will automatically refresh to reflect your changes, Microsoft said. Microsoft made the Terminal settings configurable via a JSON file, which must be opened with a separate text editor. “Much of this work is already complete and it’s our highest priority to support assistive technology in the next update to the Microsoft Store.” “A top priority for Terminal is to include robust support for accessibility, as you have today in the default command-line experience on Windows,” Kayla Cinnamon, a program manager for Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.

The idea was to make the new Terminal look more like Windows and the Edge browser.

Microsoft said then that while it would have liked to update the existing Windows Console app, adding further meaningful improvements would have broken the interface. Microsoft announced the new Terminal this past May at its Microsoft Build developer conference, with support for Unicode and UTF-8 character support, custom themes, and even a GPU accelerated text rendering engine.
