Windows Terminal now allows in beta to drag and drop a folder to open a console of that folder

Windows Terminal may not be as popular a tool as others within Windows, but the command prompt is still essential for many users, especially developers and techniciansAn open source tool that Microsoft pampers and that has seen the preview version 1.11 arrive.

An update that brings numerous improvements and new functions to Windows terminal. So now lets you open a Terminal window by dragging and dropping a folder onto the new tab button.

Improving multitasking

Windows Terminal was born from Microsoft's intention to integrate all its consoles or terminals into one. That's the basis of a project called Windows Terminal which now sees how preview version 1.11 arrives.

An update that comes with bug fixes, improvements and new features, including the ability that now offers to drag and drop a folderon the new tab button to open a console directly to that folder.

This improvement has been echoed in ONMsft and along with it the ability to multitask is improved by making it easier to swap panels within a taband split the tab in contextual view.

There's also a new settings switch that brings a semi-transparent background to the title bar. And along with this, other changes of which we are now reviewing the most outstanding:

• When adding keys to your actions, you now only need to type one key, instead of spelling out all keys (ie ctrl).
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• There is a new blur editor>"
• The font object now accepts OpenType functions and axes in the settings.json file.
• You can now optionally minimize Terminal to the system tray. Added two new settings for this functionality
• You can now drag and drop directories and files onto the '+' button, which will then open a new tab, panel or window using the given launch path.
• When starting the terminal via the default terminal settings, the terminal will now use no profile instead of our default profile.
• You can now choose how you want bold (intense) text to appear in terminal by using the IntenseTextStyle profile setting.You can set your style to be bold, bright, bold and bright, or have no additional style added.
• In newer versions of Windows, startDirectory can now accept Linux paths when starting a WSL profile.
• Panels can now be navigated in order of creation using nextPane and previousPane.

Terminal is an open source development and it is in this Github link where you can find all the information about it. All these changes that arrive in the trial version, will debut later in the standard version of Windows Terminal through the Windows Insider Program or through the Microsoft Store .

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