Open Source Windows Console Emulator
By admin on Jun 11, 2012 in open source, windows
ConEmu-Maximus5 is a Windows console emulator with tabs, which represents multiple consoles and simple GUI applications as one customizable GUI window with various features. Basic application – joint use with Far Manager (FAR in Wikipedia). Far (File and Archive) Manager is a console program for managing files and archives in Windows operating systems.
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;
- easy run old DOS applications (games) in Windows 7 or 64bit OS;
- thumbnails and tiles in Far Manager;
- normal, maximized and full screen window graphic modes;
- window font anti-aliasing: standard, clear type, disabled;
- window fonts: family, height, width, bold, italic, etc.;
- using normal/bold/italic fonts for different parts of console simultaneously;
- using 24bit colors in Far Manager 3.x;
- ANSI X3.64 and Xterm 256 colors;
- cursor: standard console (horisontal) or GUI (vertical);
- optional settings (e.g. pallette) for selected applications;
- for BufferHeight mode: vertical scrolling using keyboard;
- show full output (1K+ lines) of last command in 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;
- BDF fonts limited support;
- user friendly text and block selection;
- transparency and desktop mode;
- customizable starting tabs;
- configurable and clickable status bar;
- and more, and more… take a look at Settings dialog, WhatsNew and Settings.reg
All settings are read from the registry (multiple configurations are supported) and after that the command line parameters are applied. Parameters /Config and /BufferHeight are only for command line. Most of settings are changed only in the Settings dialog, not from the command line.
