Selecting a shell on startup in the Hyper terminal emulator

hyperstart.bat

@ECHO off
:top
CLS
ECHO Choose a shell:
ECHO [1] cmd
ECHO [2] bash
ECHO [3] PowerShell
ECHO [4] Python
ECHO.
ECHO [5] restart elevated
ECHO [6] exit
ECHO.

CHOICE /N /C:123456 /M "> "
CLS
IF ERRORLEVEL ==6 GOTO end
IF ERRORLEVEL ==5 powershell -Command "Start-Process hyper -Verb RunAs"
IF ERRORLEVEL ==4 python
IF ERRORLEVEL ==3 powershell
IF ERRORLEVEL ==2 bash
IF ERRORLEVEL ==1 cmd

CLS
ECHO Switch or exit?
ECHO [1] Switch
ECHO [2] Exit

CHOICE /N /C:12 /D 2 /T 5 /M "> "
IF ERRORLEVEL ==2 GOTO end
IF ERRORLEVEL ==1 GOTO top

:end

hyperstart.ps1

$knownshells = @(
    @{
        Name       = "CMD"
        Executable = "$env:SystemRoot\System32\cmd.exe"
    },
    @{
        Name       = "Powershell 5.1"
        Executable = "$env:SystemRoot\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"
    },
    @{
        Name       = "Powershell 6 (Core)"
        Executable = "$env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell\6\pwsh.exe"
    },
    @{
        Name       = "Powershell 7 (Core)"
        Executable = "$env:ProgramFiles\PowerShell\7\pwsh.exe"
    },
    @{
        Name       = "Bash on Ubuntu"
        Executable = "$env:ProgramFiles\WindowsApps\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_1804.2020.5.0_x64__79rhkp1fndgsc\ubuntu.exe"
    },
    @{
        Name       = "Git Bash"
        Executable = "$env:ProgramFiles\Git\git-bash.exe"
    }
) | Where-Object { Test-Path -Path $_.Executable }

"Choose a shell:"

$index = 1; $teststring = ""
foreach ($shell in $knownshells) {
    "[$index] $($shell.Name)"
    $teststring += $index++
}

""

do { $keyPress = [System.Console]::ReadKey() } until ($teststring.Contains($keyPress.Key));

$choice = $knownshells[($keyPress.KeyChar.ToString() -as [int]) - 1]

Start-Process -Path $choice.Executable -NoNewWindow -Wait -ArgumentList $choice.ArgumentList

exit

info.md

Hyperstart

I'm not supporting this anymore - I use Windows Terminal now.

Short script for Windows that allows you to select which shell you want when Hyper starts. As flexible as the windows command line.

Install

1. Grab the script from below.
2. Save it wherever you want.
3. Set your shell to '' (meaning CMD on Windows) and your shellArgs to ["/C", "path\\to\\your\\hyperstart.bat"]
4. Additional steps

• To enable the "launch elevated" line, Hyper needs to be on the PATH.

Customize

Add a shell

1. Add another ECHO line with a new number: ECHO [4] Python
2. Add the corresponding number to the CHOICE line: CHOICE /N /C:1234
3. Add the corresponding IF ERRORLEVEL line below the CLS line: IF ERRORLEVEL ==4 python
4. Fix up the other numbers, if necessary.

@lopugit - the ps1 file is a PowerShell script file that's essentially equivalent to the .bat file. As for the other problem? I have no clue. I actually haven't used Hyper in ages - I've been using Windows Terminal.

I've just looked into windows terminal, but it seems they're having issues implementing traditional basic window transparency like hyper has.

May I ask how you implement the ps1 script? I couldn't just substitute it in place of the .bat file as the runtime argument

@lopugit

I've just looked into windows terminal, but it seems they're having issues implementing traditional basic window transparency like hyper has.

Fair enough. You don't like the acrylic, then?

May I ask how you implement the ps1 script? I couldn't just substitute it in place of the .bat file as the runtime argument

Set shell to whatever PowerShell executable you want to use, either powershell for 5.x or pwsh for 6.x+. Set shellArgs to ["path\\to\\hyperstart.ps1"]