Easily add Anaconda Prompt to Windows Terminal to make life better
Cassie Breviu
Posted on December 5, 2019
I love the Windows Terminal and if you haven't tried it out yet I highly recommend it. Its super customizable which is absolutely lovely. Here are the steps to add Anaconda Prompt to Windows Terminal.
Prerequisites
- Install Windows Terminal
- Install Anaconda
- Windows 10
Add Anaconda Prompt
- Open Windows Terminal and click the arrow and then
settings
. This will open thesettings.json
file to customize the terminal. - Duplicate the
cmd
settings by copying and pasting them below or highlightCTRL + D
if using visual studio to duplicate the selected text. (I ♥ shortcuts) - Update the
guid
to something unique - Update the
name
toAnaconda
- Next update the
commandline
to the cmd forAnaconda Prompt
. The easiest way to do this is to grab the target path from the Anaconda Prompt shortcut.- Search for
Anaconda Prompt
in the windows search bar - Right click and
open file location
- Right click on the
Anaconda Prompt
shortcut - Click
properties
- Grab the target path
- Delete the extra text to get the path (shown below)
- If you prefer you can replace the "C:\Users\xxx" to "%USERPROFILE%"
The new terminal
settings.json
should look something like this:
- Search for
- Optional: Update the icon to the Anaconda navigator icon
- It will be the same root path as above up to the
anaconda3
- Append
\\Menu\\anaconda-navigator.ico
to the end. - End result should look something like this:
"icon": "%USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\Menu\\anaconda-navigator.ico"
- It will be the same root path as above up to the
- Save the changes to the
settings.json
file - Open Windows Terminal
- Click the down arrow and select
Anaconda
- BOOM! Anaconda in Windows Terminal.
- Listen to Sir-Mix-A-Lot and rejoice in your awesomeness
💖 💪 🙅 🚩
Cassie Breviu
Posted on December 5, 2019
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