We are currently working on designing a new UI solution and we’ve received some feedback that a page for 'defaults' is highly requested in the settings UI. We removed this page because the functionality introduced an architectural conflict with the JSON fragment extensions. Base layer is the equivalent to the 'defaults' section of your settings.json file, which applies settings to all of your profiles. In the version 1.8 release, we removed base layer from the settings UI. We continually work to improve the settings UI experience. Windows Terminal now displays bold text in the text renderer We will be adding a setting in the future that lets you configure this functionality. You can close the taskbar instance of terminal and still have access to your quake window because it’s running inside the tray.

Additionally, after launching the quake window, you no longer need the parent terminal instance running in your taskbar in order to open the quake window again. This gives you the option to open your quake window from the tray in addition to typing Win+`.

When the quake mode window is dismissed, it will now remain inside your system tray. Clicking this button will launch the command palette just as if you typed Ctrl+Shift+P. We decided to change this button to a command palette button to make the command palette more discoverable (because who doesn’t love the command palette? 😉). We noticed that the Feedback button inside the dropdown menu was hardly used and we figured this was highly valuable real estate. This means quake mode is coming soon to a terminal near you! 😁 Windows Terminal 1.9 is being rolled out over the next few days. Windows Terminal Preview 1.10 is here! Quake mode is in the system tray and the command palette is in the dropdown menu!

Windows terminal preview settings