How to change shell ? Windows terminal

[mkunikow]

I have widows and I have different shells;
Gitbash
Powershell 7
Windows Poweshell 5

I also has WSL2 linux machines.
What is nice in Window Terminal I can easy run everything from drop down menu.

When I open TuiOS in windows terminal on Powershell 7 it always open me Windows Poweshell 5
It possible to choose somehow shell?

[phlppgdfry]

Yes — you can choose it explicitly in tuios's config.toml. Add this to the existing [appearance] section (rather than creating a second section with that name):

[appearance]
preferred_shell = "pwsh.exe"

If PowerShell 7 isn't on PATH, use its full path instead. A TOML single-quoted string avoids backslash escaping:

preferred_shell = 'C:\Program Files\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe'

Then open a new tuios pane; an already running PowerShell 5 process won't turn into PowerShell 7. You can confirm the new pane with $PSVersionTable.PSVersion.

The reason your Windows Terminal choice isn't carrying through is that tuios selects the shell for its own panes. In the current source, its Windows fallback checks powershell.exe before pwsh.exe, so PowerShell 5 wins when no preferred shell or SHELL override is set. Setting preferred_shell avoids that fallback.

I checked this in the source rather than testing on Windows: shell selection. If your installed version doesn't recognize the setting, please share tuios --version.

[Gaurav-Gosain]

Thanks @phlppgdfry, that's exactly right. preferred_shell in [appearance] picks the shell for new panes, so pwsh.exe (or its full path) gets you PowerShell 7 instead of Windows PowerShell 5.

[mkunikow]

Thank you very much it helped !

[phlppgdfry]

Awesome! You're welcome, keep going 🔥🧑‍💻