microsoft / microsoft/terminal
Suggestion: Enable default theme based on elevation status
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Description
This would allow you to have a different default scheme when you are running WT as admin that when running it normally so you could visually distinguish elevated terminals. My Powershell profile sets the background to red for elevated instances but in WT the Powershell background color scrolls away or goes away completely if I use the cls command. I can set the color scheme or theme manually after opening WT but it would be nice for WT to do this automatically.
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Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the Windows Terminal theme and elevation-handling areas, then determine how a default scheme could be selected for elevated versus normal instances. Done means an elevated terminal visibly uses a different default theme and the distinction remains after clearing terminal output.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, powershell
- Domain
- cli, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100