Hey @Studio384! Thanks for this suggestion.

Windows Terminal support was added a few versions ago (see #9047). You can configure the preferred terminal app from the Integrations pane on the settings modal.

I have just upgraded my local installation of Windows Terminal to v1.0 and Desktop keeps detecting it correctly.

I'm going to close this issue, but please feel free to reopen with repro steps if for some reason you can't manage to get it working.

Windows Terminal != Windows Terminal Preview

Terminal Preview is the beta release channel for Windows Terminal. It cannot be detected by Desktop right now.

Thanks for the clarification @Studio384 !

You're right then, I think support to it can easily be added by following the same approach we use for Windows Terminal (source). Would you be open to contribute on this?

I've never done it before, but will give it a try.

So this sorta isn't required. Basically trying to debug myself microsoft/terminal#7188 it would appear that both Windows Terminal and Window Terminal Preview share wt.exe. Basically you could uninstall Windows Terminal and only leave Window Terminal Preview and the existing integration would open Windows Terminal Preview.

I believe effectively the Windows Terminal would need to expose a different Exe or hook to differentiate between the two.

Ermmm... I'm not that good with this kinda stuff, but maybe you could check for the wt.exe inside a containing folder?

Like checking for a sampleFolder\executable.exe instead of just executable.exe

Because obviously Microsoft doesn't overwrite the wt.exe of the Windows Terminal that's not a Preview.

As far as I know of how wt and wtp work, they both use the same executable to run, which is exposed at C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe. And you can choose the one you want to actually run by changing the alias of the wt.exe from inside the App execution aliases ( source of information ). So the desired behavior can be obtained from Windows itself so desktop won't have to add support for a beta version of something it already has. TL:DR, Desktop already supports Windows Terminal Preview, you just have to turn it on from a windows setting.

@AndreiMaga You are correct! GitHub Desktop already supports Windows Terminal Preview. You have to choose in the app execution aliases setting (in Windows Settings)