diff --git a/confluent_client/bin/nodeconsole b/confluent_client/bin/nodeconsole
index 25e190b2..e9bd6b1e 100755
--- a/confluent_client/bin/nodeconsole
+++ b/confluent_client/bin/nodeconsole
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ argparser.add_option('-t', '--tile', action='store_true', default=False,
 argparser.add_option('-l', '--log', action='store_true', default=False,
                      help='Enter log replay mode instead of showing a live console')
 argparser.add_option('-w','--windowed', action='store_true', default=False,
-                     help='Open terminal windows for each node')
+                     help='Open terminal windows for each node.  The environment variable NODECONSOLE_WINDOWED_COMMAND must be set, which should be a text string corresponding to a command that can be used to open a windowed console, omitting the "nodeconsole <noderange>" part of the command, for example, to open a set of consoles for a range of nodes in separate xterm windows, set NODECONSOLE_WINDOWED_COMMAND to "xterm -e", or in a WSL environment, to open a set of consoles for a range of nodes in separate Windows Terminal windows, with the title set for each node, set NODECONSOLE_WINDOWED_COMMAND to "wt.exe --title node wsl.exe -d AlmaLinux-8 --shell-type login".  Note that "node" when in the NODECONSOLE_WINDOWED_COMMAND environment variable is treated as a keyword, not a literal.')
 (options, args) = argparser.parse_args()
 if len(args) != 1:
     argparser.print_help()
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ if options.log:
     sys.exit(0)
 #added functionality for wcons
 if options.windowed:
+    envlist=os.environ.get('NODECONSOLE_WINDOWED_COMMAND').split(' ')
     nodes = []
     sess = client.Command()
     for res in sess.read('/noderange/{0}/nodes/'.format(args[0])):
@@ -63,9 +64,13 @@ if options.windowed:
             sys.stderr.write(res.get('error', repr(res)) + '\n')
             sys.exit(1)
         nodes.append(node)
+    # Hack to deal with messed up terminal after starting wt.exe using subprocess.Popen in WSL - AHW 10/15/22
+    sttyg = subprocess.run(['stty', '-g'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, universal_newlines=True)
     for node in sortutil.natural_sort(nodes):
-        sub = subprocess.Popen(['xterm', '-e', 'nodeconsole', node])
-        out,err = sub.communicate()
+        subprocess.Popen(envlist + [confettypath, '-m', '5', 'start', '/nodes/{0}/console/session'.format(node)])
+    # Hack to deal with messed up terminal after starting wt.exe using subprocess.Popen in WSL - AHW 10/15/22
+    subprocess.run(['stty', '{0}'.format(sttyg.stdout.strip("\n"))])
+    sys.exit(0)
 #end of wcons
 if options.tile:
     null = open('/dev/null', 'w')