Tilix vs cmder

In addition to tiling, Tilix supports placing separate sessions in tabs or switching from one to another through a sidebar.

The user can split terminals horizontally or vertically, according to their needs or preferences.

Tilix follows the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and uses the UI patterns of this desktop environment.

Tiling and ability to type into multiple terminals simultaneously is Terminator's 2 most significant features. Tilix has them as well.

Many actions in Tilix can be triggered with configurable shortcuts.

Tilix follows GNOME HIG whereas gnome-terminal doesn't. GNOME should use Tilix as their default terminal.

Unlike the standard GNOME Terminal, Tilix supports configurable background transparency.

Tilix has that new GNOME look, with a HeaderBar. It can also be disabled.

Inside a session, you can select multiple terminals, which will receive the same input simultaneously.

The new 1.30 version of Tilix supports a quake mode enabling it to work as a drop-down terminal.

As fast as gnome-terminal, if not faster.

When running commands it feels snappier.

You can copy text from the terminal as HTML for embedding in web settings.

Great support for solarized color schemes, and no setup is involved.

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.

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.

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.

Such applications include CMD, Powershell, and MinTTY.

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.

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.

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.

CMDer works great with the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Just change your startup task to point to the bash.exe file.

Integrates with:

• cygwin
• mintty
• powershell
• msysgit

Set ZSH as shell using "chsh" command, and launch the console using "ubuntu1804" command.

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.