The section for "How to determine the GUID of an existing profile" states that a GUID is required and that this GUID has to conform to the UUID v5 standard with a specific namespace. A sample UUID for 'Ubuntu' is given to check the validity of a generator.

However, this section does not mentioned how to generate such a UUID e.g. using PowerShell. Using online generators as mentioned in #66 or #274 does not work as expected because of the caveat only mentioned as a comment in #274 .

The PowerShell method mentioned alongside the online generators also does not appear to support v5 generation.

So, to make things a little bit more straightforward I would kindly ask that more complete instructions are added to the documentation on how to generate and validate such a GUID.

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• Content: Windows Terminal JSON Fragment Extensions
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