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@kingToolbox kingToolbox released this 17 Jul 08:24
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Usage:

Windows

Please install vc_redist.x86 if WindTerm failed to run.
Please use WindTerm_Win10_Conpty.exe to support Windows 10 shell. (Windows 19H1 [v10.0.18309] and later)

MacOS

Please open dmg file and drag WindTerm.app to the Applications folder.

Linux

Please use the following command to run the WindTerm after downloading.

tar -xzvf WindTerm_2.1.0_Linux_Portable.tar.gz && cd ./WindTerm_2.1.0 && chmod +x ./WindTerm && ./WindTerm

Upgrade

For Windows and Linux, copy or move the profiles folder from the old Windows/Linux version to the new Windows/Linux version and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

For MacOS, copy or move the profiles folder from the old WindTerm.app/Contents/MacOS to the new WindTerm.app/Contents/MacOS and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

The profiles folder is cross-platform.

Known Issues:

  • [ZMODEM] Only support file names contains ASCII characters in Windows, otherwise the file name of the transfered file will be garbled after transmission, but it does not affect the correctness of the file content. Linux version does not have this problem.

Features:

  • [MacOS] Supports MacOS and MacOS shells, e.g. bash, tch and zsh. #44 #46 #65
  • [MacOS] Automatically detect and add openssh, shell, putty, powershell core sessions.
  • [SESSION] Supports synchronizing input in multiple sessions. #87 Intro video
  • [SESSION] Supports pausing and resuming synchronization during synchronizing input.
  • [EXPLORER] Added a new Explorer pane for easier management of sessions. Intro video
  • [APP] Added crash reporting system in Windows version. #109 #110
  • [APP] Supports changing the master password. #70 Intro video
  • [TAB] Supports hovering and selecting the tab below, the default selection time is 0.2 second. #82
  • [TAB] Supports using Ctrl+Alt+1 to Ctrl+Alt+4 to select the first to fourth tab, and Ctrl+Alt+5 to select the last tab. #82 #86
  • [TAB] Supports custom mouse double click tab operations, including None, Close tab and Rename tab, the default is Close tab.
  • [TAB] Supports custom mouse middle click tab operations, including None, Close tab and Rename tab, the default is Rename tab.
  • [TAB] Supports custom mouse right click tab operations, including None, Close tab and Rename tab, the default is None to show the tab menu.
  • [GUI] Supports drawing text with floating point precision.
  • [GUI] Supports focus mode. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports right-click-to-paste. #58 #116 #117
  • [GUI] Supports specifying character spacing through charSpaceFactor, which range is 0.8 to 2.0, the default is 1.0. #72
  • [GUI] Supports showing tab number in the tabbar, including None, All and FirstNine, the default is FirstNine.
  • [GUI] Supports setting whether to ask to restore the last sessions again when closing the application.
  • [GUI] Supports displaying the name of the current tab in the window title bar.
  • [GUI] Supports keeping the window always on top.
  • [GUI] Supports showing or hiding the menu bar, status bar, quick bar, etc;
  • [GUI] Added a layout button in the menu bar to easily show or hide docks, panes, menu bar, status bar, etc. Intro video
  • [GUI] Added the right-click menu in the margins of the text view to show or hide the margins, symbols, white spaces, etc. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports customizing text elide mode of the tab, including ElideLeft, ElideRight, ElideMiddle and ElideNone, the default is EchoMiddle.
  • [GUI] Supports customizing what tab should be set current when the current tab removed, including SelectLeftTab, SelectRightTab, SelectPreviousTab, the default is SelectPreviousTab.
  • [GUI] Name each tab group.
  • [GUI] Supports splitting a session tab to the specific tab group. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports moving a session tab to the specific tab group. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports merging a tab group into another tab group. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports closing a tab group and all internal session tabs. Intro video
  • [GUI] Supports customizing echo mode of the user name in the login wizard, , including EchoNone, EchoEdit, EchoRandom and EchoAll, the default is EchoNone.
  • [GUI] Added a menu item Open session in the Session menu.
  • [GUI] Added close buttons in the tab list menu.
  • [GUI] Added a close button in the search pane.
  • [GUI] Added mnemonics to the tab titles in the Session Property dialog.
  • [GUI] Added password strength meters to the master password dialog and lock screen.
  • [GUI] Supports locking the screen, and the defaut shortcut key is Ctrl+Shift+L. #70 Intro video
  • [GUI] Make the Scheme, Local/Remote Mode and Lock Screen buttons in the status bar clickable.
  • [GUI] New master password dialog with the safe input boxes.
  • [TERM] Supports OSC 7 (gnome variant) and OSC 9;9 (ConEmu variant) working directory notifications.
  • [TERM] Supports OSC 777 (urxvt variant) and OSC 9 (iTerm2 variant) system message notifications.
  • [SHELL] Supports duplicating the working directory of a session that supports OSC 7 or OSC 9;9 when it is duplicated.
  • [SHELL] When dragging and dropping files or folders to the shell session, each path will be entered automatically.
  • [MODEM] Supports XModem, YModem and ZModem in SSH, Telnet, Serial, Linux Shell and MacOS Shell.
  • [MODEM] Supports specifying the use of XModem, YModem or ZModem when uploading files by drag and drop.
  • [XMODEM] Supports using the XModem and XModem-1K protocol to download or upload one or more files not larger than 4 gigabytes. Intro video
  • [XMODEM] Supports automatic opening of the download directory after downloading the files.
  • [XMODEM] Supports customizing padding char when uploading files.
  • [XMODEM] Supports automatic trimming padding when downloading files.
  • [YMODEM] Supports using the YModem and YModem-1K protocol to download or upload one or more files not larger than 4 gigabytes. Intro video
  • [YMODEM] Supports automatic opening of the download directory after downloading the files.
  • [YMODEM] Supports download operations such as overwrite, rename and skip when a local file with the same name exists.
  • [ZMODEM] Supports using the ZModem protocol to download or upload one or more files not larger than 4 gigabytes. #27 #60 Intro video
  • [ZMODEM] Supports automatic triggering of upload and download operations.
  • [ZMODEM] Supports automatic opening of the download directory after downloading the files.
  • [ZMODEM] Supports upload operations such as overwrite, append, rename and skip when a remote file with the same name exists.
  • [ZMODEM] Supports using the Cancel button, or <ctrl+x><ctrl+x>, or <ctrl+c> key to terminate the transmission at any time.
  • [SENDER] Supports sending text to the specific tab group.
  • [SENDER] Supports sending escaped characters, including \nnn, \xHH, \uHHHH, \c-x, \m-x, \0, \t, \r, \n and so on. Intro video
  • [QUICKBAR] Supports sending escaped characters, including \nnn, \xHH, \uHHHH, \c-x, \m-x, \0, \t, \r, \n and so on. Intro video #84

Improvements:

  • [SSH] Add salt to the encrypted login information makes it possible to generate different encryption results even when the same login information is encrypted to enchance security.
  • [SSH] Clear the decrypted login information from the memory immediately after completing the automatic login to enhance security.
  • [SSH] When the saved automatic authentication is cleared, useless configuration items ssh.port and ssh.target are no longer generated in the configuration file.
  • [APP] Enhance the verification of the correctness of the master password. #85
  • [GUI] Make the opened sessions displayed first in the Open Session dialog.
  • [GUI] Simplify the trigger of Show All Opened and Recent Terminals in the Command Palette from tm to t.
  • [GUI] Supports setting the default editor path to an empty string to clear it.
  • [GUI] When the window gets the focus and no session is opened, set the focus to the address bar to facilitate input. #120
  • [GUI] Darken the scrollbar slider color in the themes dige-black-and-white and dige-white to make it more eye-catching. #81
  • [GUI] Avoid session views that can be resized down to size 0.
  • [GUI] Add more detailed information to the session tab tooltip, including Session, Target, Tab Index, Sync Channel, Tab Title and Tab Group.
  • [GUI] Adjust the dige-black, dige-white and dige-black-and-white color themes for better display.
  • [GUI] Redesign the master password dialog box and add instruction descriptions.
  • [GUI] Added tooltips to the message bar.
  • [GUI] Align menu item icons and check marks.
  • [GUI] Added a count label to the filter input box of the tab list menu.
  • [GUI] The tooltip of the session tab displays more tab page information, including Session, Target, Tab Index and Sync Channel.
  • [TAB] Supports asking whether to close the current session when double clicking the session tab.
  • [FILER] The file size displayed in the status bar is accurate to 2 digit precision, like 1.42GB.
  • [SENDER] Added icons and tooltips to the session selection list.
  • [SCHEME] Supports matching the number of milliseconds in the datetime.

Bugs:

  • [APP] The application may crash when opening Windows shells, like Cmd and Powershell. #110
  • [APP] The application may crash when setting the number of columns and rows of the windows to large numbers. #126
  • [APP] Splitting the tabgroup multiple times will cause a crash when restoring the layout after restarting.
  • [APP] When the automatic login information of any session is cleared, the master password will become invalid. #105
  • [APP] Cannot restart after exiting in full screen mode. #93 #99
  • [LOG] Cannot record logs in the binary mode of the Serial and raw TCP. #71
  • [LOG] When recording the log, the long line is recorded in segments. #126
  • [GUI] The current zoom setting of the font will be reset when switching the theme.
  • [GUI] The text widget in the Sender pane cannot correctly respond to the shortcut key Alt+O.
  • [GUI] Window failed to properly restore to maximum when exiting full screen. #79
  • [GUI] The new tabgroup does not get focus when the old tabgroup is closed.
  • [GUI] The text is not displayed properly when the screen is changed. #73 #78
  • [GUI] When the Find combo box contains a long string, the width will be too wide, even beyond the screen. #83
  • [GUI] When the text encoding of the server is not UTF-8, and the window title set by the server contains non-ASCII characters, the window title will be garbled.
  • [GUI] When using the menu item View - Panes - Filer to activate the filer pane, the filer pane cannot accept keyboard input immediately.
  • [GUI] The text is not displayed properly when the screen resolution is changed. #72
  • [GUI] When the shell combobox in the session dialog is switched to admin:cmd, admin:powershell, gitbash, cygwin, etc., the system combobox fails to automatically set the corresponding system type.
  • [SSH] The session cannot log in automatically when using pageant authentication. #70
  • [TERM] The shortcut key Ctrl+@ cannot send NUL. #123
  • [TERM] The key AltGr is erroneously handled as key Del. #121
  • [SENDER] The shortcut key <Alt+Enter> does not start sending text. #87
  • [SENDER] Cannot respond to any keys except the <Space> key in the sessions list.

Intro Videos

Roadmap of v2.2 (Mid-August, for reference only)

  • SSH ControlMaster
  • SSH Agent Forwaring
  • Global Settings Dialog Box
  • Multilingual User Interface
  • New memory allocator and manager and garbage collector. (Postponed to v2.3)
  • Search in sessions. (Postponed to v2.3)

Version 2.2.2 (2021-11-28)

If you want, you can try WindTerm 2.2.2 now.

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