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cmder
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Extends the powerful ConEmu
Cmder builds on ConEmu console emulator, by adding enhancements from clink (such as bash-style completion in cmd.exe and PowerTab in powershell.exe) and optionally extending it with msysgit, that brings Unix tools to Windows.
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Issues with non-unicode characters
'ls' command can have issues with non-unicode characters such as cyrillic. As of 1.1.2, 'dir' can be used as a substitute that will properly display non-unicode characters. Unfortunately, it's an issue with msysgit that isn't being officially addressed (a workaround is available) thus no official ETA on the bugfix is available.
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Minimal and portable version available
There is a portable version of cmder available which is just 10 MB in size. It can be put on an external device, like a USB stick, and run off it. There's no installation required.
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Not as portable as advertised
Even though cmder is advertised as a "portable terminal emulator for Windows", it's not adequately minimalistic to be considered truly portable. In fact, one of the dependencies required to use it is the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015.
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Has built-in Quake style drop-down mode
This is an extremely useful mode whereby the console hides and shows on ctrl+~ similar to a gaming console. This feature is inherited from ConEmu.
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Issues with escape codes
Sometimes it doesn't interpret terminal escape codes correctly and the output gets mangled using tmux over ssh, for instance.
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Works nicely with command line applications
Such applications include CMD, Powershell, and MinTTY.
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Slower than ConEmu
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File explorer integration
Cmder can be added to the right-click menu, allowing the user to start a terminal session from the selected directory with a "Cmder Here" command. The functionality can be enabled by opening up a terminal with administrator privileges, navigating to the Cmder folder and executing .\cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL.
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There is no ligatures support
As though the fonts like Fira Code or Hasklig work in Cmder, this enhancement for the Windows command prompt doesn't display ligatures in the above-mentioned fonts.
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Monokai color scheme
Cmder pretties up the default look of ConEmu using Monokai color scheme out of the box and allows flexible color and transparency schemes, including custom out-of-focus opacity.
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Lots of conflicts with OS keybindings
By default, things lke ctrl-w will close your window unexpectedly when using nano or trying to delete a word in bash.
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Integrates with graphical applications
Portable GUI applications can be integrated directly into the interface of the terminal emulator. For example, it's possible to integrate ST3 with cmder by moving the portable version of ST3 to /cmder/vendor/ and editing alias file in /cmder/config/aliases to include subl="%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" $1 -new_console:s75V. Now writing subl in the command line will open ST3. The alias of subl can be changed to whatever's needed and similarly, the -new_console option's parameters can be changed to alter how the text editor integrates with the terminal emulator. It can be horizontal or vertical splits of varying sizes or tabs, etc.
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The portable (mini) version does not have UNIX commands
UNIX command support is only available for the full version.
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Works with WSL bash.exe
CMDer works great with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Just change your startup task to point to the bash.exe file.
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Very slow
Scrolling in vim lags the screen and can crash.
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Highly flexible
Integrates with: cygwin mintty powershell msysgit
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Works with ZSH and Oh My ZSH through WSL (using ubuntu 18.04)
Set ZSH as shell using "chsh" command, and launch the console using "ubuntu1804" command.
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Works with VS Code, Hyper and IDEs
Cmder can be used with popular editors such as VS Code, which delivers aliases and clink as well as its color scheme to VS Code. It can also be used without ConEmu and Hyper as an alternative terminal emulator, which makes customizing the UI through NPM plugins much easier.
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License:
MIT
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InnoSetup
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Easy to extend, add custom behavior
Can easily script own functions to run at various stages of the install / uninstall process.
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Pascal scripting
For programmers used to C and C#, the Pascal scripting syntax is something that takes a while to get used to.
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Well supported
Frequent updates to keep up with the latest OS features, fix bugs. Also has attracted a good deal of 3rd party support (extensions, environments etc). Good community resources for tackling problems.
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Well written documentation
Well indexed and accurate Help file included with the scripting environment.
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32 bit / 64 bit support
Covers both 32bit and 64bit software
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Does not use Windows Installer MSI files
Uses a dependable, proven non-MSI approach to installation and uninstallation.
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Platforms:
Windows
Technology:
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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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ConsoleZ
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Supports splitting tabs into views
In ConsoleZ, the user can split a tab into different views either horizontally or vertically.
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You can't scroll up and down for command history as those keys are bound to the scrollbox
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Fullscreen support
ConsoleZ can be opened in fullscreen.
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No way to open pre-created tabs on startup
If you want to setup a certain number of tabs to automatically run pre-defined scripts in ConsoleZ or Console 2, you can't. You have to open everything manually every time you start the application.
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Small, portable installation
Install to OneDrive/Dropbox/Google Drive and your setting will be consistent everywhere.
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Supports typographic ligatures
Typographic ligatures occur when there are two or more letters joined as a single glyph, such as "æ".
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Easy transition from Console2
Being a fork of Console2, ConsoleZ is fully compatible. It even recognizes existing Console2 config files, making the transition easier.
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Input sent to one view can be sent to all
ConsoleZ allows for grouping of open views (panes) so that if an input is sent to one of them, it can be sent to all views grouped with it automatically.
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High DPI
This means that the display screen in ConsoleZ is sharp.
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Drop-down animation support
ConsoleZ can be used as a drop-down terminal inspired by the famous Quake terminal. Once opened, it can be toggled with a key of the user's choice. This makes it easier to have access to it from any window instead of having to cycle through all open applications.
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Localization support
ConsoleZ is available in French, Russian, German, and Japanese.
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Zooming with Ctrl-Mouse
The user can easily zoom by simply pressing Ctrl-Mouse.
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Windows 7 Jump List makes the user's life easier
Jump List is a useful feature that allows the user to view recent documents in a program that is pinned to the taskbar.
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Snippets
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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
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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
Path exclusion:
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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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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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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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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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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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