Let me give you a pretty cool example config that makes your Windows Terminal look immediately 10-times cooler. You will always see a preview of your changes in the little console preview window up top in the Appearance options. I highly recommend you watch the video that is mentioned at the beginning of this article where I go over each of those options in-depth. Here, you can change anything from the Color Scheme, Font Family, Font Size, Font-Weight, and a couple of very cool options like Retro Terminal Effects, change Windows Terminal Background Image as well as Acrylic Effects, or changing the Windows Terminal Background Opacity. Now comes the part you all have been waiting for! Customizing Windows Terminal appearance for WSL 2! Windows Terminal WSL 2 Appearance Settings I usually like to modify the Tab title to something nicer, like the name of the distribution.

Allows you to hide this profile from the selection drop-down.

So instead of your tab saying you can choose to let it say 'Ubuntu' only, or something like that. (Replace the Linux penguin with something else) Per default it is your user profile ( :/mnt/c/Users/ceos3c$)

Change the Default Starting Directory your WSL 2 will start in.

Change the Name of your distribution how it will appear in the drop-down list.

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Part 9 - Windows Terminal Settings JSON.

Windows Terminal WSL 2 Advanced Settings.

Windows Terminal WSL 2 Appearance Settings.

Windows Terminal WSL 2 General Settings.

Part 8 - Customize Windows Terminal for WSL 2.

Part 6 - Windows Terminal Rendering Settings.

Part 5 - Windows Terminal Color Schemes.

Part 3 - Windows Terminal Interaction Settings.

Part 2 - Windows Terminal Startup Settings.

Part 3 – In-Depth Windows Terminal Customization for WSL2 Table of Contents Part 2 – Windows Terminal Customization for WSL 2 Part 1 – How to install WSL 2 with Windows Terminal – Complete Guide I recommend having a look through Steps 1 - 7 anyway since we cover a lot of basics that affect startup behavior and so on.

The actual WSL2 customization starts in Part 8. A short side-note: Parts 1 - 7 represent default Windows Terminal settings. Now without further ado, let's dive into Windows Terminal Customization for WSL2. Check out my Complete WSL2 Course on Udemy

Windows terminal settings.json location