Windows Terminal 1.24 Preview adds new windowing system, UI customization, SSH profiles

Windows Terminal Preview 1.24 brings usability improvements and bug fixes, while the stable branch moves to version 1.23 with features from earlier releases. The update introduces a more reliable windowing system with improved tray icon behavior, refined window actions, and faster Quake mode summoning.

The settings UI now integrates options previously limited to JSON, including bell sounds, cell size adjustments, color and background controls, spatial padding editing, compatibility settings, and an icon picker. Users can also customize the New Tab dropdown, manage profiles and color schemes through a new Extensions page, and access expanded context menu functions for splitting, moving, zooming, and closing panes.

Other highlights include drag-and-drop path translation, SSH dynamic profile generation from ssh_config, multilingual command palette support, and relative file path handling for icons, backgrounds, and shaders. The release adds the Dimidium color scheme, options to disable zoom and opacity shortcuts, easier settings reset and cache clearing, broader snippet detection, and minor enhancements such as regex in matchProfiles, fuzzy palette search, hover previews, perceptual color nudging, and MinGW path translation.