How to start ssh with wt.exe and keep terminal colors
I have this shortcut
C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe --window 0 -p "Windows Powershell" C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe -noExit -Command "ssh webdev"
It works fine but the terminal opened doesn't have colors.
This is regular terminal:
This is the shortcut:
A video of me opening an ssh connection in different ways.
https://files.catbox.moe/vskxx0.webm
Shortcut 1: "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -Command "ssh webdev"
Shortcut 2: wt.exe "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -Command "ssh webdev"
I'd like to use wt.exe because I like being able to easily open a new tab.
Update
I found in C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalState\settings.json that the colorScheme used is the default one 'Solarized Dark' instead of the 'Windows PowerShell 7' profile's 'One Half Dark'.
Even if specified in the shortcut
C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\wt.exe -p "Windows Powershell 7" "C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe" -Command "ssh webdev"
{
"$help": "https://aka.ms/terminal-documentation",
"$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",
"actions":
[
{
"command": "find",
"keys": "ctrl+shift+f"
},
{
"command": "paste",
"keys": "ctrl+v"
},
{
"command":
{
"action": "copy",
"singleLine": false
},
"keys": "ctrl+c"
},
{
"command":
{
"action": "splitPane",
"split": "auto",
"splitMode": "duplicate"
},
"keys": "alt+shift+d"
}
],
"copyFormatting": "none",
"copyOnSelect": false,
"defaultProfile": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
"profiles":
{
"defaults":
{
"colorScheme": "Solarized Dark",
"font":
{
"face": "FiraCode Nerd Font Mono"
}
},
"list":
[
{
"colorScheme": "One Half Dark",
"commandline": "C:\\Program Files\\PowerShell\\7\\pwsh.exe",
"guid": "{61c54bbd-c2c6-5271-96e7-009a87ff44bf}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Windows PowerShell 7"
},
{
"guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "S\u00edmbolo del sistema"
},
{
"guid": "{c6eaf9f4-32a7-5fdc-b5cf-066e8a4b1e40}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Ubuntu-18.04",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Wsl"
},
{
"guid": "{b453ae62-4e3d-5e58-b989-0a998ec441b8}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Azure Cloud Shell",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.Azure"
},
{
"guid": "{cc1103f1-07a6-5722-a92c-731a1a864d7f}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"guid": "{6501f08f-1c83-5423-afd5-5e1b828bff9a}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "Developer PowerShell for VS 2022",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.VisualStudio"
},
{
"guid": "{574e775e-4f2a-5b96-ac1e-a2962a402336}",
"hidden": false,
"name": "PowerShell",
"source": "Windows.Terminal.PowershellCore"
}
]
},
"schemes":
[
{
"background": "#0C0C0C",
"black": "#0C0C0C",
"blue": "#0037DA",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"brightBlue": "#3B78FF",
"brightCyan": "#61D6D6",
"brightGreen": "#16C60C",
"brightPurple": "#B4009E",
"brightRed": "#E74856",
"brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
"brightYellow": "#F9F1A5",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#3A96DD",
"foreground": "#CCCCCC",
"green": "#13A10E",
"name": "Campbell",
"purple": "#881798",
"red": "#C50F1F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#CCCCCC",
"yellow": "#C19C00"
},
{
"background": "#012456",
"black": "#0C0C0C",
"blue": "#0037DA",
"brightBlack": "#767676",
"brightBlue": "#3B78FF",
"brightCyan": "#61D6D6",
"brightGreen": "#16C60C",
"brightPurple": "#B4009E",
"brightRed": "#E74856",
"brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
"brightYellow": "#F9F1A5",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#3A96DD",
"foreground": "#CCCCCC",
"green": "#13A10E",
"name": "Campbell Powershell",
"purple": "#881798",
"red": "#C50F1F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#CCCCCC",
"yellow": "#C19C00"
},
{
"background": "#282C34",
"black": "#282C34",
"blue": "#61AFEF",
"brightBlack": "#5A6374",
"brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
"brightCyan": "#56B6C2",
"brightGreen": "#98C379",
"brightPurple": "#C678DD",
"brightRed": "#E06C75",
"brightWhite": "#DCDFE4",
"brightYellow": "#E5C07B",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#56B6C2",
"foreground": "#DCDFE4",
"green": "#98C379",
"name": "One Half Dark",
"purple": "#C678DD",
"red": "#E06C75",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#DCDFE4",
"yellow": "#E5C07B"
},
{
"background": "#FAFAFA",
"black": "#383A42",
"blue": "#0184BC",
"brightBlack": "#4F525D",
"brightBlue": "#61AFEF",
"brightCyan": "#56B5C1",
"brightGreen": "#98C379",
"brightPurple": "#C577DD",
"brightRed": "#DF6C75",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#E4C07A",
"cursorColor": "#4F525D",
"cyan": "#0997B3",
"foreground": "#383A42",
"green": "#50A14F",
"name": "One Half Light",
"purple": "#A626A4",
"red": "#E45649",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#FAFAFA",
"yellow": "#C18301"
},
{
"background": "#002B36",
"black": "#002B36",
"blue": "#268BD2",
"brightBlack": "#073642",
"brightBlue": "#839496",
"brightCyan": "#93A1A1",
"brightGreen": "#586E75",
"brightPurple": "#6C71C4",
"brightRed": "#CB4B16",
"brightWhite": "#FDF6E3",
"brightYellow": "#657B83",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#2AA198",
"foreground": "#839496",
"green": "#859900",
"name": "Solarized Dark",
"purple": "#D33682",
"red": "#DC322F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#EEE8D5",
"yellow": "#B58900"
},
{
"background": "#FDF6E3",
"black": "#002B36",
"blue": "#268BD2",
"brightBlack": "#073642",
"brightBlue": "#839496",
"brightCyan": "#93A1A1",
"brightGreen": "#586E75",
"brightPurple": "#6C71C4",
"brightRed": "#CB4B16",
"brightWhite": "#FDF6E3",
"brightYellow": "#657B83",
"cursorColor": "#002B36",
"cyan": "#2AA198",
"foreground": "#657B83",
"green": "#859900",
"name": "Solarized Light",
"purple": "#D33682",
"red": "#DC322F",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#EEE8D5",
"yellow": "#B58900"
},
{
"background": "#000000",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#3465A4",
"brightBlack": "#555753",
"brightBlue": "#729FCF",
"brightCyan": "#34E2E2",
"brightGreen": "#8AE234",
"brightPurple": "#AD7FA8",
"brightRed": "#EF2929",
"brightWhite": "#EEEEEC",
"brightYellow": "#FCE94F",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#06989A",
"foreground": "#D3D7CF",
"green": "#4E9A06",
"name": "Tango Dark",
"purple": "#75507B",
"red": "#CC0000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#D3D7CF",
"yellow": "#C4A000"
},
{
"background": "#FFFFFF",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#3465A4",
"brightBlack": "#555753",
"brightBlue": "#729FCF",
"brightCyan": "#34E2E2",
"brightGreen": "#8AE234",
"brightPurple": "#AD7FA8",
"brightRed": "#EF2929",
"brightWhite": "#EEEEEC",
"brightYellow": "#FCE94F",
"cursorColor": "#000000",
"cyan": "#06989A",
"foreground": "#555753",
"green": "#4E9A06",
"name": "Tango Light",
"purple": "#75507B",
"red": "#CC0000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#D3D7CF",
"yellow": "#C4A000"
},
{
"background": "#000000",
"black": "#000000",
"blue": "#000080",
"brightBlack": "#808080",
"brightBlue": "#0000FF",
"brightCyan": "#00FFFF",
"brightGreen": "#00FF00",
"brightPurple": "#FF00FF",
"brightRed": "#FF0000",
"brightWhite": "#FFFFFF",
"brightYellow": "#FFFF00",
"cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
"cyan": "#008080",
"foreground": "#C0C0C0",
"green": "#008000",
"name": "Vintage",
"purple": "#800080",
"red": "#800000",
"selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
"white": "#C0C0C0",
"yellow": "#808000"
}
]
}
Fixed
-p "Windows Powershell 7"
SHOULD HAVE BEEN
-p "Windows PowerShell 7"
Solution
To provide the solution in the form of an answer:
For
wt.exe, Windows Terminal's CLI to recognize a-pargument (profile name) if must match the name of a defined profile in full, case-exactly;[1]If there is no exact match, Windows Terminal quietly falls back to the default profile (whatever its name is).
You may alternatively pass a profile's GUID (which you can glean from the
settings.jsonfile) to-p(the same fallback logic applies).
Because your
-pargument differed in case from the actual profile name -p "Windows Powershell 7"(note the lowercasesinPowershell) vs.-p "Windows PowerShell 7"- your default profile was used instead.- As an aside: There is no such thing as Windows PowerShell 7: there's Windows PowerShell, the legacy edition whose latest and last version is 5.1, and there is PowerShell (Core) (possibly prefixed with Microsoft, but NOT Windows), the modern, cross-platform edition that is currently at v7.x (and whose first version was v6.0).
Fixing the case mismatch solved your problem.
[1] It is (unfortunately) also possible to (accidentally) create multiple profiles with the exact same name (but different GUIDs), in which case the first one defined is the effective one (based on the order shown in the Settings GUI).
By contrast, duplicate profile GUIDs (which are automatically created and assigned when you use the Settings GUI) are detected and result in an error message.
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