Command Prompt / Console / Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
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We’re hear to learn about the features you’d like to see in the Windows Console (the terminal app itself), Cmd and PowerShell shells, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) upon which several Linux distros now run!
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Windows Console & WSL Teams.
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Can you tell me why Microsoft Corporation keeps shrinking the size of the text
Can you tell me why Microsoft Corporation keeps shrinking the size of the text
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Windows Console options mockup
Mockup: https://imgur.com/LjRKwIZ
Some ideas that could be added in Windows Setting about the Windows Console:
Select a new default shell: Allow user to select PowerShell, Command Prompt or Bash as default shell across the system
Reset Windows Console options: Reset all users customizations in Console>Right Click> Default & Properties windows.
Apply following settings to Windows Console:
- Use legacy console (As in Console Properties window)
- Various edit options
- Command History settings
- Font settings
- Text selection
- Transparency (View better transparency option on uservoice)
- EtcMaybe can be added a section dedicated to Windows Console
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Windows needs a command-line Package Manager
I think that Microsoft could achieve the following 3 things if you seriously thought about a package management strategy for Windows and Windows programs.
1. You could simplify the lives of system administrators by allowing them to easily script up updates and required programs
2. You could take a little more control of the Windows environment by maintaining a repository of trusted software for installation
3. You could decrease the number of vectors for malware to enter WindowsBy maintaining a repository of programs that run on Windows and allowing updates to be administered from that repository, Microsoft would make…
93 votesfine feedback. :) ·AdminRich Turner (Sr. Program Manager, Windows Console & WSL, Windows Developer) responded
We hear ya! We’d love to see a Windows package management feature with command-line support. If you agree, please upvote: We GREATLY appreciate our community’s asks and views!
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Install pref in ubuntu bash in windows, linux-tools-common and linux-tools-generic
Pref install in ubuntu bash in windows to analyze monitoring data and performance data of our machine, but it gives the following message:
Could not locate the package linux-tools-3.4.0 .6 votes -
Run bash.exe from within VB6 Code by means of Shell() & Cmd.exe Please Support it for inter operability of Linux and Windows applications
I am Wondering Why bash.exe is not running from Shell() function inside
a Visual basic6 program code though CMD.exe and bash.exe are on
the path= "C:\Windows\System32\" , File not found raised as the error.
and here is the Code List in VB6 that Can not launch
bash.exe using Shell() with or without CMD.exe.
Option ExplicitPrivate Const WAIT_INFINITE = -1&
Private Const SYNCHRONIZE = &H100000Private Declare Function OpenProcess Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal dwDesiredAccess As Long, _
ByVal bInheritHandle As Long, _
ByVal dwProcessId As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function WaitForSingleObject Lib "kernel32" _
(ByVal hHandle As Long, _ …2 votes -
Add "start" like the one from cmd.exe
So you know how you can run "start myprogram" in the regular cmd.exe? Something like that for text based applications running in WSL. So if I wanted to download packages in a seperate window, I could run something like "start sudo apt get upgrade" straight from WSL. Also, an option to auto-terminate the window would be great.
2 votes -
Add gnumeric support for WSL
It would be nice if I could apt install gnumeric.
Gnumeric is the only application I really miss on windows.1 vote -
elif else if shows as an error, just using if removes the error but not the cause.
Most of script is unusable as it calls/refers to things not "there".
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/master/wireless-info
zenity is a viable directory, but not a viable program, so I was xpecting it to skip thru
wicd was installed just to help the script out.
so ifconfig reports as normal, iw igives a message failed to connect to the generic link.
it is the elif that is puzzling.
2 votes -
Octopus Deploy Integration!
One-Stop-Shop For All Environments Deployments??
DEV, EXP|TEST, STAGING, PROD...many celebrations around the world will be heard, not unlike the unfortunate demise of a stellar deathoid above a forest planet...
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How to do a fresh install?
. . or create a second instance, not of the command shell but of the complete subsystem. I found that turning off and then on (with reboots) the Windows feature "Windows Subsystem for Linux" reinstated the first instance rather than a fresh one. (By the way, after the feature is turned off, invalid "Bash on Ubuntu!" icons are still present.)
6 votes -
stdio for Windows GUI apps
Add support for windows GUI apps to write to stdout/stderr and read from stdin.
I see this as a link time option and an additional flag set in the binary executable.7 votes
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