[Terminal support]: Windows Terminal

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#549 opened on Sep 6, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 68/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Active
Tech stack: shell
Domain: cli

Research direction

Start by reading apply-colors.sh and reviewing how existing terminal integrations locate and update their configuration. Use Windows Terminal's settings.json, specifically its schemes array, as the implementation target. Done means Gogh can apply a selected color scheme to Windows Terminal's own configuration on Windows, with the relevant behavior verified.

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Description

help-needed terminal-support

Terminal name

Windows Terminal

Project link

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal

Platform(s)

Windows

How does this terminal store its color scheme / theme?

Windows Terminal reads its color schemes from a JSON settings.json file, under a schemes array of named color scheme objects (16 ANSI colors plus background/foreground/etc.).

Additional context

Previously requested in #413 and #528, both closed without support ever being added to apply-colors.sh — reopening as a standalone, trackable request. Note this is specifically about running Gogh so it edits Windows Terminal's own config, not about WSL2 changing the host terminal's colors indirectly.

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