This tutorial will show you how to turn on or off using acrylic material in the tab row of Windows Terminal for your account in Windows 10 and Windows 11.
Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells you already love, like Command Prompt, PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and the ability to create your own themes and customize text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts.
When you turn on "Use acrylic material in the tab row", the tab row in Windows Terminal is given an acrylic background at 50% opacity.
When you turn off (default) "Use acrylic material in the tab row", the tab row in Windows Terminal will be opaque.
Reference:
Windows Terminal Appearance Settings
Learn how to customize appearance settings within Windows Terminal.
learn.microsoft.com
"Use acrylic material in the tab row" in Windows Terminal requires Transparency effects turned on.
EXAMPLE: "Use acrylic material in the tab row" turn on and off in Windows Terminal settings
Here's How:
1 Open Windows Terminal.
2 Click/tap on the down arrow button on the top bar, and click/tap on Settings Ctrl + , (comma). (see screenshot below)
3 Click/tap on Appearance in the left pane. (see screenshot below)
4 Turn On or Off (default) Use acrylic material in the tab row for what you want.
5 Click/tap on Save at the bottom right to apply.
6 You can now close the Settings tab if you like.
That's it,
Shawn Brink
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