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ConEmu
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Can be used with any shell
ConEmu allows running CMD, PowerShell, Cygwin, PuTTY, TCC/LE, etc.
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Default look is somewhat unpleasant
In order to get a more pleasant look and feel, you may need to customize ConEmu yourself.
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Highly customizable
You can configure a plethora of settings, including shortcuts and aesthetics (background image, transparency, colors, and fonts) per software.
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Layering of features per tab works with limited functionality
Can't do all of this, but it can theme colors per terminal: Tab 1: I want it transparent, with a fixed background, with a certain color scheme, running powershell Tab 2: Similar thing, but different bg, theme, and running posh as admin Tab 3: Similar thing, but different bg, theme, and running cygwin
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Explorer integration
ConEmu integrates well with Explorer.
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Bad scrolling support
The mouse wheel scroll doesn't transfer to terminal applications by default. It moves to the blank space instead of scrolling actual text content. This is especially true for ConEmu where there doesn't seem to be a way to make it work better.
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Highly configurable hotkeys
Hotkeys allow the user to easily trigger an action and can be configured to their liking.
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It is slow
If you have a console process that outputs a lot, ConEmu will be the slowest option. Everything else will be faster. Even Terminus, which is, common, a packed web browser app. In my tests if ConEmu takes one unit of time, Terminus and Windows Terminal will be 0.6, FluentTerminal 0.35, Alacritty 0.3.
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Tab support
ConEmu allows the user to create tabs (Win+W by default) for separate instances of the terminal window, allowing them to have both multiple shells and multiple instances of the same shell open. The user can also set up a startup directory for each tab and run each tab as a specific user or rights.
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Poor performance with WSL
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Run DOS applications with DosBox
If you have both ConEmu and DosBox installed, you can run DOS applications (and games) within a 64-bit OS environment.
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Screen scrapes from real console
ConEmu always runs the standard Windows console - ‘real console’, but it is hidden most of time. This adds overhead, introduces another layer of complexity, and frequently creates irritating strange glitches (lost keys, messed up spacing) for heavy users.
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Integrates with FarManager
ConEmu was originally designed as an updated front-end specifically for the FarManager, which means it has increased functionality.
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Only simple, black and white emoji
It's not much, but is sad we can't get colored emojis. May change soon, I'm working on a PR.
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Progress Bar integration
ConEmu permits the user to check up on the progress of an operation with a quick glance at the taskbar, without needing to bring the app to the foreground.
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No remote connections
A terminal emulator should emulate a terminal, i.e. a local input/output device to a remote computer. ConEmu can only run local processes in a window (albeit nicer than the local command shell window).
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Useful status bar details
Not only does the status bar show detailed information out-of-the-box, it can be configured for your specific needs.
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Free and open source
ConEmu is licensed under New BSD which is a class of very simple and liberal software licenses.
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Dynamically resize the window
You can change the width and height of the console window without having to reset your session.
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Run simple GUI apps within a ConEmu tab
With -new_console and -cur_console switches you can run simple GUI apps in a ConEmu tab (or split).
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Transparent, Quake-style mode
You can set up ConEmu as a transparent, Quake-style console by following these instructions.
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Supports borderless mode
To put ConEmu in borderless mode: Set Main -> Appearance -> Frame Width to 0
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Supports Jump Lists
ConEmu allows pinning commands to Jump Lists (available in Windows 7 & 8; accessed by right-clicking the application in the taskbar), giving you quick access to common tasks and configurations.
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Search in console input/output history
ConEmu supports searching in all text that has been printed or entered in the console history.
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Actively developed
ConEmu is under active development. Updates roll out almost daily with bugfixes and new features.
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Box selection
ConEmu offers multiple, configurable ways of interacting with text, including an ability to select text in a rectangular way.
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Built-in screenshot tool
The screenshot tool allows the user to capture their computer desktop or anything shown on their computer screen in a static image file.
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Auto discovers your shells
Zero config gets you all your installed shells.
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Closest replacement for iTerm2 users
Supports many of the features that iTerm users have become accustom to (like multiple tabs, highlighting, configurable scroll bars, decent support for themed color pallets to support basic/solarized/etc.).
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Works well with Vim/Neovim on Windows
There were issues before that forced me to use graphical versions of Vim/Neovim, but latest versions of Conemu + Neovim, seem to be working much better on Windows now.
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Works well with WSL/Tmux/Neovim/SSH
There were issues before in the WSL usage scenario that forced me to use an X gui terminal using X forwarding, but now Conemu is working great, and is the only terminal I use from Windows/WSL.
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Take Command
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Text processing tools
Regular expression pattern enabled tools for text filtering, searching, substitution, and conversion.
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Powerfull scripting language
Powerfull scripting language with a lot of commands and predefined variables.
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File compression tools
File compression tools, e.g. bz2, gz, tar, 7zip and zip.
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FTP Command Line Client
Command line driven FTP client.
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Batch Debugger
It has a GUI Debugger for Batch files as well the own scripting language (BTM).
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MobaXterm
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Flexible
MobaXterm can connect to practically anything.
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Not completely freeware
If you use MobaXterm at work, they hope you will pay for it. This isn't horrifying, but it's not providing any new features in Linux to warrant the outlay. Its integration with Putty in Windows as an X client may make it worth the funds.
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X server support
In case you need X11 forwarding, MobaXterm has an integrated X server.
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Split screen prevents tabbed mode
If you split a screen within a tab, you have to go back to single screen before you can switch to another tab.
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Full linux subsystem with package manager
And you can install conda for additional package management.
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Can have some performance issues
MobaXterm can have some occasional performance issues. These happen rarely but it's worth mentioning that they exist, especially since this is a paid tool.
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Tabbed or split mode
Multiple terminals can either be in tabs or split horizontally or vertically.
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Integral remote file editor
Edit remote files via ssh and sftp
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SSH tunnel controls and forwarding UI controls makes it easy
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Automatic SFTP
With MobaXterm, there's no fiddling with multiple apps: simply connect and everything is available.
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Connection manager
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ENV can use Windows PATH
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Password vault
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Server tools (HTTPD, SSHD, SFTPD, TTFT)
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Build in sftp file manager
Manipulate and edit remote files in the file browser.
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Integrates with WSL
Integrates perfectly with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Out of the box it offers a shell to that system.
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Supports macro controls (multi commands in single screen)
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TeraCopy
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Sometimes clashes with 7 zip
From my experience, TeraCopy does not do well in conjunction with 7zips. It seems to error on some systems when you do a drag-and-drop extract.
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Faster file deletion
It deletes files much much faster than built in Windows file manager.
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Can check files for copy errors
TeraCopy can automatically check/verify the copied files for errors, by calculating their CRC or other checksum/hash value.
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Seamless shell integration
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Skips badly copied files
TeraCopy skips badly copied files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer "Verify" with checksum/hash, so you can see which files to re-copy. See also, OpenHashTab for Windows and DeadHash for Windows, Linux, Android.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
License:
Proprietary
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WizTree
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Exceptionally fast for NTFS drives
Because it reads the master file table (MFT) directly from NTFS file system.
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Intended for NTFS only
It'll work with any other file system but with the same speed as any generic space analyzer.
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Free
There is no limitation to using it.
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Multiple view such as tree view, tree map, extension view, file view
Unlike other similar apps, which usually only offer single view, this app offers multiple views.
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Handles "hard linked" files correctly - doesn't count them more than once
WizTree is faster and much more accurate than all the others as it properly handles hard linked files (doesn't count them more than once) so the total allocated size reported by WizTree will actually match the space used on the drive as reported by Windows.
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Platforms:
Windows
Interface:
GUI
Treemap:
Yes
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Process Hacker
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See programs with active network connections
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It might be a little intimidating for some users
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Real-time information on disk access
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Can be set as your default task manager
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10x more detail and information about usage of PC resources and processes
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Detailed overview of system activity with highlighting
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Can create, edit and control services
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Can track which processes are using a file
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Open source
You can find the code here.
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View detailed stack traces with kernel-mode
Supports WOW64 and .NET.
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Graphs and statistics to quickly track down resource hogs and runaway processes
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FireCMD
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Sophisticated auto-completion
FireCMD supports command auto-completion. Once you start typing a command, you can press the tab key to auto-complete it.
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Not free
Although there's a free trial available, FireCDM is not free and costs $29.
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Recursive and persistent aliases
FireCMD allows users to create up to 500 aliases.
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HTML and CSS support makes for greater usability
HTML is a very flexible and user-friendly language for writing web pages, while CSS allows for the content of a HTML document to be separated from the style and layout of that document.
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A free trial is available
A free trial of FireCMD is available for users to try out.
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Fluent Terminal
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Integration for Cmder and Powershell
Supports different shells, such as Cmder's clink and powershell.
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No Scrollbars
Without scrollbar it is very difficult to navigate even the default Microsoft Terminal has a good scrollbar
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Great looks
Support Microsoft Fluent Design's Acrylic effect for a blurred-behind effect on Windows.
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Fast and modern design
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Fast
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Nice design
Great customized terminal but needs lot of other basic features too like scrollbar.
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Rapid environment editor
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Warnings
Displays wrong entries in red, e.g. paths that do no longer exist.
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Simple
Some may not consider it a "power" user tool.
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Easy
Editing of Windows environment variables is easy, splits long lines.
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Resolve variables values, make easy a refactoring of PATH by extracting different elements in their own new variable
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Convert variables between verbatim and expandable
Windows supports referencing variables within variables, but only if they're marked in the registry as expandable, and conversion between the two types is exposed in the context menu for each variable.
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HovText
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Trusted signed executable and open source
HovText has existed for 20 years and has always been open source.
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Remove formatting from text copied
Copying text from the internet or from Office applications most often will include styles and formatting when pasting, but HovText can remove all this formatting, so only the raw unformatted cleartext will be pasted - this is a life-saver :-)
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Keeps the most used clipboard entries at top
Most recent entries copied/pasted are available from a top-down principle.
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Trim whitespaces and empty new-lines on copied text
When marking text with the mouse, it often adds a whitespace at the beginning or the end of the text or there are some empty lines above or below that gets copied too, but HovText has an option to remove whitespaces at beginning and end - very useful.
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Intuitive, fast and modern UI for finding previous copied texts or images
When viewing the list of previous copied clipboards, then it is easy to find the relevant text or image you need.
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Fully user configurable
All hotkeys can be configured and all layout, style and screen display can be tweaked, so there is a chance you can have it setup as you want.
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Portable and no installation needed
Fast, light, no installation process and no registration needed - just "click and use".
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Save clipboards on computer
The clipboards can be saved to local computer, so it can be reused after a computer shutdown.
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Platforms:
Windows 7/8/10/11
Initial Release:
2004-02-24
Newest Release:
2024-02-02
Approximate Size:
2.7MB
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Greenshot (for Windows)
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Scrolling window capture is only working in Internet Explorer
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Free and open source
Greenshot is licensed under GPL with source code available on BitBucket.
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This version only works on Windows, not Linux nor Mac
However, the same author now has a separate version of Greenshot for iOS, which is available (for a small fee) in the Mac App Store at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/greenshot/id1103915944
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Freezes screen when you capture
When you enter a capture mode, the screen content is preserved as it was when you started capturing.
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Allows annotating, highlighting and obfuscating screenshots
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Can capture an entire webpage
Instead of just capturing the visible portion of the page, this tool can capture all of the page in one image by scrolling through the page, taking images at set points and then stitching the images together.
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Can be quickly invoked with the print screen button
Pressing the print screen button will allow you to select the captured area.
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Selecting custom rectangle is the default
Easy to use selection tool with a magnifier to select only the part of the screen that you need.
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Classic UI design makes it easy to use.
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tmux
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Easily split panes
There is a keyboard shortcut that makes it easy to split a window and create more panes.
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Poorly designed key binding
Counter-intuitive keyboard shortcuts make tmux very hard to use and learn.
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Windows linked to sessions
tmux calls the individual shell instances windows. They are displayed like tabs in the status line. These windows can be shared between different sessions, so that any given shell instance can be in any number of tmux sessions used for different purposes or by different users. This allows configurations like the following example: User A: wAB, wA1, wA2; User B: wB1, wAB, wB2
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Bad scrolling support
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Preserve the state
As long as you don't close your session, you may even lose your SSH connection, it'll keep your state just as it was. So you can resume where you left off (via tmux attach).
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No builtin telnet or serial support
It's considered bloat by the maintainers and for this reason there's no builtin support for them.
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Maximize screen space
As a tiling window manager, it'll make use of all the space. As you have multiple workspaces and you can resize, etc. you can adjust to see what matters most.
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Frequently updated
Tmux is in a state of constant development. Updates are frequent and bug reports usually get an answer within days.
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Customizable
Open ~/.tmux.conf to get started. You can customize keybindings, the bottom status bar, color schemes, the clock screen, your time zone, and more.
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Mouse support
Mouse support can optionally be enabled, allowing e.g. scrolling with the mouse wheel, or switching panes with mouse clicks.
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Only need to learn a few keyboard shortcuts and commands to make much headway
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License:
ISC license
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Listary
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It's also a launcher
Once you find the file you need, you can launch it or use custom actions.
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Search as you type everywhere
You can start typing on the desktop or any folders and it'll just search for you.
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Supports other explorers
It supports not only Windows Explorer but also XYplorer, Directory Opus, Total Commander and all the other explorer alternatives.
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Platforms:
Windows
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Fox Term
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2
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Multi-Terminal
Many terminals in one, save-able, restart-able, session.
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Dated
Hasn't been updated for a while, so your Windows will need legacy .NET runtime support. (Windows will automatically detect this and initiate the update, if needed)
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Simple
Minimalist. All you need is to connect to a serial host.
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FreeFileSync
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It supports multiple protocols
It will work with MTP, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and more.
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Does not preserve folder timestamps when copying
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It can copy locked files
It supports Volume Shadow Copy Service, meaning that it can copy files even if they are in use or otherwise locked.
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Memory hog
It runs a little slow on computers who don't have much RAM available.
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Cross-platform
It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Limited built in history
The program only remembers the latest set of folders you synced, so you have to save your syncs or create batch files.
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Portable version available
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A little intimidating for novices
If you never ran a file syncing software, this can be a little tricky to configure as your first one.
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It is quite performant
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No backup encryption
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Google Drive support
FreeFileSync provides direct access to Google Drive, no additional software is needed.
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It doesn't run on older Linux systems
It's dependencies don't allow it to run on older systems.
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Completely free
Source code releases are provided under GPLv2.
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It supports realtime sync
It can be configured to constantly monitor two folders for changes and sync them instantly when a change is detected.
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It lets you program batch scripts
You can program your own jobs for execution as a script.
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It supports case sensitive synchronization
For Unix-like systems.
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It supports long file paths
It can copy files and folders with more than 260 characters in their paths.
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It supports versioning
Versioning is keeping multiple instances of the modifications of your files.
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It can sync both local disks and network shares
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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One Commander
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Free
Free for non commercial use.
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Folders cannot be sorted by size
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Simple and fast
Fast search and filter.
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Cannot access Android device connected by USB
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Miller columns
Like Finder from macOS.
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Cannot access Android device by FTP
And can never will as this is clarified by developer that this feature will never be added.
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Multi tab support
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It doesn't have UNDO function
Very important. When you work with valuable data files, this function can't be ommited.
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Themes
Light, dark and customizable themes/colours.
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Navigating folders by Ctrl+Tab has considerable delay
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Default file manager setup
Can make it the default file manager such that windows explorer stays out of the way for most of the work.
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Browsing Recycle Bin is very slow
Navigating away from Recycle Bin tab and coming back to it reload the Recycle Bin which is very slow as mentioned. Program has an option to open recycle bin in Windows File Explorer, which suggests that developer is aware that opening Recycle Bin is problematic.
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File previews
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Confusing
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File / folder filters
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Context menu only based on icons
No longer with Onecommander 3.6.43
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Folder views can be saved and applied
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OS:
Windows 10 version 17763.0 or higher
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F.lux
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Can help sleep better
Helps provide better sleep for more energy during the day.
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Takes a while to get used to
After installing F.lux, the screen will look a lot more yellow. This takes about a week to fully get used to. You can ease into it by setting the color temps higher than the recommended defaults.
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Eases eye strain
Decreases color temperature at night, changing the normally fluorescent blue of an LCD monitor to a soft orange. Much easier on the eyes, especially in a low-light environment.
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Subtle transition
The transition from daytime to nighttime color modes takes an hour by default and will detect your current timezone, meaning that it will happen in the background at sunset, often without you noticing.
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z/Scope Terminal Emulator
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Supports tabs, making for easier navigation
z/Scope supports tabs and tab-based navigation.
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Not free
z/Scope is not free.
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Affordable
Licenses are permanent. Price starts at $46. First year support is free. Continuing subscription, it's not mandatory to renew maintenance services.
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Host Access
It supports IBM TN3270E / TN3270 emulation, IBM TN5250E, UNIX VT100-420, SSH and secure FTP integration.
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Cross OS
Windows and Web-based editions.
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Windows Terminal
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Official Microsoft product
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Requires latest version of Windows 10
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Is an *actual* terminal emulator--what a Linux user would expect--like xterm
Not a command prompt/processor (i.e. shell) but a host for such applications. ANSI / Virtual Terminal sequences 24-bit Color Pseudoconsole ("ConPTY")
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Cannot have a mix of elevated and non elevated tabs
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Multiple shell support
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Unstable and buggy
Sometimes freezes and/or crashes.
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Open Source under the MIT License
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/
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Configured via (mostly) documented json
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/master/doc/cascadia/SettingsSchema.md
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Easy and well documented JSON settings
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Slow
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Microsoft is nailing on its features
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Doesn't have feature "Open Context Menu"
Poorly, this perfect terminal doesn't has this feature for Windows version.
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Platforms:
Windows 10/11
License:
MIT
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PromptPal
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Not free
Although there's a free trial available, PromptPal is not free to use.
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Tabbed UI makes the user's life easier
You can have PromptPal open automatically with the same tabs as used in the most recent session, starting in the same directories.
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Multiple shells supported
PromptPal supports several shells (including Powershell) and it allows you to choose which shell to run through the preferences.
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Persistent, editable command history
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