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ConEmu

Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

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  • Windows
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Discontinued

It's no longer updated and no activity in the repository for a long duration. A new app "Cmder" is actively maintained fork.

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Features

Properties

  1.  Customizable

Features

  1.  Tabbed interface
  2.  Shell integration
  3.  Quake-style
  4.  ANSI color support
  5.  Split-screen view
  6.  Multi-tabs
  7.  Portable
  8.  Multiple window layouts
  9.  Remote Debugging
  10.  Kubernetes
  11.  Command line interface
  12.  Support environment variables
  13.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  14.  Create SSH users

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: ConEmu is highly praised as an excellent terminal emulator on Windows, offering features like tabbed console, split console windows, customizable environments, and the ability to manage multiple shells like CMD and PowerShell. Users find it perfect for both Linux and Rails development on Windows, appreciating its robust customization. However, some concerns include a steep learning curve and occasional bugs with scrolling buffer and window resizing, which negatively impact usability for certain tasks.
Top Positive Comment
Johxz
1

ConEmu is the best Windows terminal.

There is other "alternative" but in reality it is the same ConEmu with some guy modifications made public, a good-looking theme and a bunch of scripts to please everyone needs. Like Superconsole, Cmder and other out there. In another word is another distro like the infinites debian/ubuntu clones with a nice wallpaper and high res icons.

Sorry I'm not a fan of cmder or any other "ConEmu with scripts fit all needs".

Grab ConEmu and add the shell you need. Basically 3 steps.

  • 1 Download ConEmu
  • 2 Download the shell you need, like msys2, place inside of conemu
  • 3 Configure the shell on ConEmu like "ConEmu::MSYS2::bash"
Top Negative Comment
alexanderprange
1

Fantastic terminal, probably the best I have ever used on windows.... when it works. Unfortunately there are a ton of bugs with scrolling buffer and window resizing that practically renders it unusable for certain tasks and it doesnt seem like developers are trying to fix these well known faults.

Sam Lander
0

Great, customizable terminal emulator. My only big gripe is that the gui is kind of ugly, and I can't seem to get rid of the tiny line on the top to make it windowless.

JCDUnatco
0

It looks great, lets you use all different terminals (PowerShell, CMD, etc.) in one window. Very customizable.

Sour Ce
0

Split or single screen highly customizable terminal emulator with any number of terminals of your choice + startup / default Task option so all the terminals will open upon program startup. Grids also doesn't have to be symmetrical, e.g. you may have 1 wide terminal at top and 1,2,3,4 or any number of terminals at the bottom if you wish.

Guest
0

ConEmu is miles ahead of other terminals, may take some time to configure with all the options, here conemu cygwin clink quakeconsole splitviews and a lot of shortcuts keeps the doctor away

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Guest
3

ConEmu is simply the best terminal emulator for Windows. It works great for me, with all kinds of shells and tools. I cannot imagine using Windows without it.

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What is ConEmu?

Windows console emulator with tabs, which presents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features.

Initially, the program was created as a companion to Far Manager icon Far Manager .

Today, ConEmu can be used with any other console application or simple GUI tools (like PuTTY icon PuTTY for example). ConEmu is an active project, open to suggestions.

ConEmu starts a console program in hidden console window and provides an alternative customizable GUI window with various features:

  • smooth and friendly window resizing;
  • tabs for editors, viewers, panels and consoles;
  • run simple GUI apps in tabs;
  • Windows 7 Jump Lists and Progress on Taskbar buttons;
  • easily run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64-bit OS;
  • thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager;
  • normal, maximized and full screen graphical window modes;
  • customizable window fonts;
  • using 24-bit colors in Far Manager 3.x;
  • ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256 colors;
  • cursor: standard console (horizontal) or GUI (vertical);
  • optional per-application settings (e.g. palette);
  • vertical console buffer scrolling using the keyboard (BufferHeight mode);
  • show full output (1K+ lines) of last command in Far Manager's editor/viewer;
  • customizable Far Manager right click behaviour (long click opens context menu);
  • drag and drop (explorer style) of files and folders in Far Manager;
  • limited support of BDF fonts;
  • user friendly text and block selection;
  • transparency and desktop mode;
  • customizable starting tabs;
  • configurable and clickable status bar;

All settings are read from the registry (multiple named configurations are supported), after which the command line parameters are applied. Parameters /Config and /BufferHeight can only be specified on the command line. Most settings are configured using the Settings dialog, not from the command line.

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  •  9,260 Stars
  •  625 Forks
  •  1067 Open Issues
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Our users have written 22 comments and reviews about ConEmu, and it has gotten 386 likes

ConEmu was added to AlternativeTo by Maximus5 on and this page was last updated .