Icons from EXE/DLL as Custom Profile Icon Source #4351

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opened 2026-01-30 23:44:48 +00:00 by claunia · 2 comments
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Originally created by @HeyITGuyFixIt on GitHub (Oct 8, 2019).

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I was experimenting with adding the Python 3.7.3 shell to Windows Terminal and was trying to figure out a way to add its icon with extracting it from python.exe. Unless there is some way I am unaware of to use an icon embedded in an EXE or DLL as a profile's icon, this appears to be a feature that is missing. I would expect to be able to use the EXE or DLL's path as part of the profile's icon path, with an integer specifying the index after a comma, similar how autorun.inf files specify an icon to use.

Is this already possible to do? If not, is this something that should be added?

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claunia added the Issue-FeatureResolution-Duplicate labels 2026-01-30 23:44:48 +00:00
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@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Oct 8, 2019):

/dup #1504. Thanks for filing! It's definitely something we'd like to do.

@DHowett-MSFT commented on GitHub (Oct 8, 2019): /dup #1504. Thanks for filing! It's definitely something we'd like to do.
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@ghost commented on GitHub (Oct 8, 2019):

Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!

@ghost commented on GitHub (Oct 8, 2019): Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
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Reference: starred/terminal#4351