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Easily add Anaconda Prompt to Windows Terminal to make life better

Cassie Breviu on December 05, 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 ...

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Nikita Lukianets • May 20 '20 • Edited

In the newest version of Windows Terminal, the changes are done in the settings.json file. Just change USERNAME to yours for the "commandline" setting.

{ // Make changes here to the cmd.exe profile. "guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceee452369}", "name": "Anaconda", "icon": "%USERPROFILE%\Anaconda3\Menu\anaconda-navigator.ico", "commandline": "cmd.exe /K C:\Users\USERNAME\Anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat", "hidden": false },

Cassie Breviu • May 20 '20

I updated to settings.json! Thanks!

benjamin-sandham • Jun 23 '20

My username is bsand, so my commandline setting is

"cmd.exe /K C:\Users\bsand\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat"

However, the \b is highlighted, I think it is acting as an escape character. Do you have any suggestions?

Nikita Lukianets • Jun 23 '20

Try instead
"commandline": "cmd.exe /K C:\\Users\bsand\\anaconda3\\Scripts\\activate.bat"

emmatovar27 • May 19 '20

If you want to have the Anaconda Icon can use this path.

"icon":"%USERPROFILE%\\Anaconda3\\Menu\\anaconda-navigator.ico"

Cassie Breviu • May 19 '20 • Edited

AWESOME! I am going to add this to my setup. Do you mind if I add it into the blog post as well? Thank you :D

emmatovar27 • May 20 '20

No problem! :) Go ahead! Actually thanks for the blog post! :)

Naveen Kumar • Jul 21 '20

(base) C:\Users\navee> this is my actual anaconda prompt
(base) C:\WINDOWS\System32> this is anaconda prompt in windows terminal
in the windows terminal, I'm running anaconda prompt as administrator mode
help me change into the user mode with windows terminal

Cassie Breviu • Jul 21 '20

Can you post the JSON here? For the startingDirectory change the JSON to the location you want the directory to open for startingDirectory.

Naveen Kumar • Jul 21 '20

{
"guid": "{0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6106}",
"hidden": false,
"icon":"C:\Users\navee\anaconda3\Menu\anaconda-navigator.ico",
"name": "AnacondaPrompt",
"commandline": "cmd.exe /K
C:\Users\navee\anaconda3\Scripts\activate.bat"
},

Cassie Breviu • Jul 21 '20 • Edited

Not sure if I completely understand. Are you trying to run as admin in win term?

Naveen Kumar • Jul 22 '20 • Edited

No, I'm not trying to run as admin.... while running in a Windows Terminal by default it's running in admin mode
I tried to change the path also, but every time in windows terminal, the anaconda prompt opening as administrator mode.
Anyways it won't make any difference if I run as administrator mode, so no probs
Thank You Cassie, thanks for ur time n support :)

PY-Peter • Nov 6 '20

Add "startingDirectory": "C:\Users\navee" to settings.json file.
Does that solve the problem?

Karan Shah • Oct 13 '20

I am facing the same problem is it resolved?

Asgaut Eng • Jan 6 '21

If anyone want to add a Miniconda Powershell prompt add this to the settings.json file:

        {
            // Miniconda Powershell prompt for local user install (non-admin install)
            "guid": "{1caa0dad-35be-5f56-a812-afceeeaa1234}",
            "name": "Miniconda",
            "commandline": "%windir%\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -NoExit -Command \"& '%USERPROFILE%\\Miniconda3\\shell\\condabin\\conda-hook.ps1' ; conda activate '%USERPROFILE%\\Miniconda3' \"",
            "icon": "%USERPROFILE%\\Miniconda3\\Menu\\Iconleak-Atrous-PSConsole.ico",
            "hidden": false,
            "startingDirectory": "%HOMEPATH%"
        }

Ivan • Jan 14 '21 • Edited

If you have trouble being creative on step 3 you can just use PowerShell

PS C:\Users\you> New-Guid

Guid
----
ea5220b1-590e-4aa3-8c83-3494f8fe9a6b

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershel...

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jfreeman2 • Jul 20 '21 • Edited

@vpraharsha03 I'm experiencing the same issue. @cassieview any idea as to what could be causing this? Thanks for the post! It was very helpful

PRAHAR~1 • Jul 23 '21

@jfreeman2 it turned out that i used unnecessary capitalization in the property name. I used commandLine instead of commandline
cmd.exe opens up because it is the default value when commandline property isn't specified or improperly specified.

Mohamed Zeid • Feb 1 '21 • Edited

My miniconda installation was a bit different, and this what ended up working for me.
It is installed at this path "C:\ProgramData\Miniconda3"

{
              // Miniconda 
                "guid": "{1caa0dad-35be-5f56-a812-afceeeaa1234}",
                "name": "Miniconda",
                "commandline": "cmd.exe /K %ProgramData%/Miniconda3/Scripts/activate.bat %ProgramData%/Miniconda3",
                "icon": "%ProgramData%\\Miniconda3\\Menu\\Iconleak-Atrous-PSConsole.ico",
                "hidden": false,
                "startingDirectory": "%HOMEPATH%"
            }'

Soumyadip Sarkar • Mar 27 '21 • Edited

the key is changing the guide variable,
my cmd guide is 0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6101
I changed the guide by adding one with the last digit of cmd's guide and the rest of the things will be similar.
My anaconda guide is 0caa0dad-35be-5f56-a8ff-afceeeaa6102

Dominik Schneider • May 23 '20

is there anyway to add a command to run in the conda environment? I'd like to set up a profile for radian github.com/randy3k/radian which is installed in a conda environment.

Cassie Breviu • Jun 18 '20 • Edited

Update the command line to the following:
"commandline": "cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%\\AppData\\Local\\Continuum\\anaconda3\\Scripts\\activate.bat & radian"

Dominik Schneider • Jun 18 '20

Thanks! I ended up with this actually - specifying the miniconda3 folder specifies the root environment which is not totally necessary in this case but useful if radian isn't in root.

 "commandline": "cmd.exe /K %USERPROFILE%/Miniconda3/Scripts/activate.bat %USERPROFILE%/Miniconda3 && radian.exe",

Jitvimol • Feb 6 '21

Thanks for the sharing. This is great!
Note for new comer, use double backslash in value of command line.

oneextrafact • Mar 12 '20

As my last task in the regular Anaconda prompt, I ran

import uuid
uuid.uuid4()

Thanks so much for a helpful post!

D V Bhuvan • Feb 5

This was really helpful, Thank you!