How does "Default Terminal" work? #15861
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Why do I directly double-click the cmd.exe file in the System32 directory, it will also open in Windows Terminal? How is it achieved? Ask for answers
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What you're seeing is the "Default Terminal" feature in Windows 11, which lets you change which application is used as the default terminal emulator for command-line applications. That was previously always "conhost.exe", but now the Windows Terminal can be used as the default emulator too. How it works is... complicated... and I believe we're tracking writing those docs in #9462. It was originally spec'd here: #7414 The other comment you have in this thread, about the leading spaces, looks like it's the same thing we're discussing with you in #15836, so I'm gonna collapse that as off-topic. |
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What you're seeing is the "Default Terminal" feature in Windows 11, which lets you change which application is used as the default terminal emulator for command-line applications. That was previously always "conhost.exe", but now the Windows Terminal can be used as the default emulator too.
How it works is... complicated... and I believe we're tracking writing those docs in #9462. It was originally spec'd here: #7414
The other comment you have in this thread, about the leading spaces, looks like it's the same thing we're discussing with you in #15836, so I'm gonna collapse that as off-topic.