Windows Terminal settings for Miniconda

Here is how to add the Miniconda prompt to Windows Terminal. Analogous steps probably will work for an Anaconda prompt.

First, we need to know where the Miniconda prompt lives.

• Find the desired Anaconda/Miniconda prompt in the Start Menu. Right click > Open file location

• Select the shortcut for the Anaconda/Miniconda prompt. Right click > Properties.

Look at the target field. For my Miniconda shortcut, I have:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe "/K" C:\Users\trist\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat C:\Users\trist\miniconda3

We don’t need to hardcode in my user profile path. I also don’t think that last path is necessary, so this can simplify to:

%windir%\System32\cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat

In Windows Terminal, create a terminal profile:

• open Settings > Add a new profile > New empty profile.

Interactive setup

We can use the Windows Terminal app to set up the miniconda prompt. Things to change include:

• Name
• Command line: Use the target field from above. In my case, I paste in %windir%\System32\cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%\miniconda3\Scripts\activate.bat
• Starting directory: I select “Use parent process directory”.
• Icon: I use the snake emoji 🐍 but this page has a hint about using a .ico file.

JSON

Instead of the interactive setup, we can open the JSON settings file (Settings > Open JSON file) and modify/paste in the settings. Here are my settings. Here the guid field was created by Windows Terminal so we should use the one it provides for us.

{
  "commandline": "%windir%\\System32\\cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%\\miniconda3\\Scripts\\activate.bat",
  "guid": "{2679ff34-f6b9-5fcd-9b81-08b50df61bae}",
  "icon": "\ud83d\udc0d",
  "name": "Miniconda",
  "startingDirectory": null
}