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How to change the Windows 11 Terminal background image and icon for a more colorful workspace

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Published onOctober 20, 2022

published onOctober 20, 2022

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Finally, Windows Terminal is the defaultcommand line tool experience onWindows 11 2022 Update. Now, you may want to spruce up your Terminal workspace on a new icon and background image that entertains you while you’re getting your work done.

Don’t worry, you won’t have toedit a single JSON fileor anything too hard. In this guide, we will show you how to replace the default terminal background with just about any image file on your PC.

Without going into adeep dive on installing schemes, there’s an even quicker way to add some personality to Terminal without being an actual developer.

Change Windows 11 Terminal background image or icon

Once you set your background image inWindows Terminal, if you have a game or some other program that needs to have a Terminal Window open, you will see this image as a background until you change it.Nerd Fonts is an iconicfont aggregator, collection and patcher resource for icons if you need it, but you can use any image you want, even gifs!

Here’s what you need to do to change your background image and icon on Windows 11 Terminal.

Additional background image settings include background image stretch mode to pick how you want the image to appear (Uniform to fill, Uniform, Fill, or None), image alignment to pick how you want the image to appear in Terminal and use the slider to choose image opacity.

Did you know you could change the background image and icon on Windows 11 Terminal? Let us know in the comments!

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