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I could probably make an entire course on all the different

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terminal settings and features.

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It's not practical to try to cover them all here,

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but I hope I can give you a sense of what's possible and show you

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how to find and experiment with settings you might find useful.

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I've already got a terminal open here at the bottom of my window.

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I'll click on the dropdown arrow in the upper right corner of the

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panel to open the terminal menu.

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From here, I'll select "Configure Terminal Settings."

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That opens up the visual settings editor we explored earlier

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in the course.

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Notice that the search box at the top is pre-populated with the text

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@feature:terminal.

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That's the syntax to filter settings by a particular

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application feature,

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the terminal in this case.

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Also notice in the hierarchical view on the left that there are 98

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terminal-related settings in this version of VS Code.

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If you're the kind of developer that really likes to tweak your

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environment and get everything exactly how you want it,

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then I'll encourage you to browse the whole list when you have

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time. For the rest of you,

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you can further filter these results by adding additional

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search text in the box above.

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For instance, I'll add a space in the word "linux" to the end

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of the current search.

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I'm now seeing just the eight terminal settings that are

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specific to running VS Code on Linux.

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If you're on a Mac, you can change that to osx.

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That filtered the list of five settings.

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As you might expect, you can see Window specific

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settings by searching for Windows.

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Instead of Windows, I'll search for cursor.

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Now, you can see some of the settings that affect the

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terminal cursor.

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I'll change the cursor style from block to underline.

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Another popular thing to tweak in the terminal is the font.

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I'll change the font size from 14 to 16.

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As we saw earlier in the course, some settings you're required to

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change directly in the settings.json file.

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I'll click the icon in the upper right corner that switches me

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to the settings.json editor.

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You can see the last two settings in the file are the changes I just

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made to the terminal cursor style and font size.

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The filter on the UI editor showed 98 terminal related settings,

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but there are actually more than that.

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That was just those under the top level terminal settings key

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like those two here.

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If you want to customize colors within your chosen color theme,

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you have to add the workbench.colorCustomization setting

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to this file.

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Its value is a JSON object with additional terminal options.

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I'll first add terminal.background.

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When I pressed the tab key, VS Code defaulted the value to red.

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If you know the code for the color you want,

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you can just type it here.

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However, you can also click on the color sample and choose your

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color from a picker.

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I'll click it and choose black.

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I'll add one more setting to this object to change the

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foreground color.

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The property for it is terminal.foreground.

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I'll again use the color picker and this time

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choose a shade of green.

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Now that I've made several small changes to the appearance

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of my terminals, I'll open a new one and

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see how they look.

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It looks good, at least to me.

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I like the colors, the larger font, and the

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new underline cursor.

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Take some time to experiment and find the terminal settings

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you like.

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However, this isn't quite the end of the ways you can customize

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your terminals.

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Up next, I'll show you how to create terminal profiles for the

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different types of terminals you use.