Do you want to create keyboard Shortcut to open Windows Terminal?

The new Windows Terminal is now available officially 1.0. But as a power user (that’s why you use Terminal, right?), you might want to open it in any context with just a few keystrokes.

I myself use to press Windows R, then type cmd, enter to open the good old Command Prompt. I want the same thing to open Windows Terminal.

UPDATED Dec 2020: from now on, you can simply type wt in run to launch the terminal

type wt directly to open the new terminal

This is how to do it

• Windows R, type . (the dot) then enter. This will open your home folder.
• Create a shortcut from C:\Users\lockevn\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe (remember to change “lockevn” to your Windows username) to your home folder, rename it to what you like. Mine is term.

From now on, when I want to open Windows Terminal, I press Windows R, type “term”, then enter

More on Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal 1.0 | Windows Command Line

Windows Terminal is an open source project available from the Microsoft Store and designed for command-line tool users. Power users can run things like Command Prompt, PowerShell and WSL “Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)” from an interface with tabs, panes, custom themes and a GPU-accelerated text rendering engine. It’s definitely replaces the command prompt in windows.

Jump to 4min 10sec (to see how Scott is playing around in the new Windows Terminal and WSL2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0eqZujVfYU