Questions tagged [conemu]
ConEmu is an advanced Windows console emulator with tabs, fonts, resizable windows, colors, ANSI X3.64 support, and much more.
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ConEmu under Windows 11: specifying different color schemes per instance?
I'm using ConEmu version 230724 under Windows 11.
I'd like to start up separate instances of ConEmu from the command line and be able to specify the color scheme on the command line. By "separate ...
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Color handling and "dim" on ConEmu with git-for-windows bash
Under git-for-windows "Git bash" (so, MinTTY), standard unix color codes are handled and I may use the "dim" option, so
echo -e "\033[1mHello\033[0mHello\033[2mHello\033[0m&...
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Windows 11: Getting ConEmu to *not* create a duplicate window on each virtual desktop?
SLIGHT CORRECTION: The current available ConEmu version at my job is actually 220418 instead of what I incorrectly wrote here originally. However, the ConEmu windows still get duplicated on each ...
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Start Cmder with split terminals
If I run cmd /k "%ConEmuDir%\..\init.bat" -new_console:s from an open instance of Cmder, it works as expected.
If I put the same snippet as the startup task, it's not picked up on startup.
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"Process was not attached to console" in ConEmu
Since yesterday I started getting error "Process was not attached to console" when I try to open a cygwin-bash console. The problem is debilitating and described at https://github.com/...
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I can't start vim in conemu
I'm trying to start vim in conemu.
If I add to the tasks just
vim.exe
It starts vim, but it is in black and white, and it is super super unbelievably slow.
I've tried most of the commands but the ...
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How do I prevent Git Bash from highlighting the pasted text when using it in Windows?
When I use my mouse to copy text in Git Bash it highlights the text which is fine.
However, when I use the mouse to paste the text it also highlights the pasted text.
Now here comes the interesting ...
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Windows 10: ssh-ing to a Linux box and getting full xterm-color capabilities?
At the company where I work, we log in to Windows 10, and we do our development work on Linux machines where we connect via ssh login sessions. We have been able to use PuTTY for this up until ...
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conemu64 terminal color changed to reddish color
In Conemu64 I was installing updates and pressed Ctrl + C to cancel the updating of softwares installed suddenly the terminal color is changed to reddish.
In order to simulate the above operation we ...
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Press Enter or Esc to exit
I run a batch file with
conemu run.bat
When it ends, it pauses with a message
"Press Enter or Esc to exit..."
How do I disable this? If I wanted it to pause, then I would have called pause.
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Configure Cmder/ConEmu to correctly convert paths (remove /mnt/ prefix)?
Across multiple installs of Cmder I have had this issue.
When running Git Bash the drives are mounted to /, but when pasting windows paths into the console it converts as if they are mounted in /mnt/. ...
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Timestamps in Conemu?
For example, League of Legends chat is like this:
For each line, there is a timestamp next to it. Can we make Conemu like that?
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How to open ConEmu on the screen where my mouse is?
On multiple screen, Yakuake has this amazing option to open "At mouse position", when it's activated and you're opening Yakuake with whatever shortcut you have, Yakuake display on the screen ...
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Same color text in nano editor when logged in to the server with cmder / conemu
I saw some people have a friendly color scheme in Nano editor, e.g. words inside brackets highlighted, comments highlights etc.
Looks like I fail to get my Nano editor become more user friendly in ...
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Docker CLI's dynamically updating output not rendering as intended in ConEmu
I'm running this docker command in ConEmu terminal, and I'm getting the following output:
>docker-compose up --build
[+] Building 0.0s (0/0) <--\
[+] Building 0.0s (0/0) |
[+] Building 0....
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How can I replace my command prompt?
Good morning,
This is not a duplicate of questions like this one: I'm not looking to open the command prompt and to replace the text of the prompt by something else:
I have just downloaded conEmu, a ...
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Cmder and SSH - Keep previous shell activity content after quitting full-screen process (e.g. less, vim)
I want the shell activity content (e.g. the output of ls, whoami) to be shown on the terminal screen after running and quitting a full-screen process (e.g. less, vim).
They are all removed/cleared ...
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How to get ConEmu shell type from external process?
I'm sending commands to ConEmu using GuiMacro. The commands depend on the shell type (cmd/PowerShell/Bash).
How can a process running outside of ConEmu read shell type of specified ConEmu tab (e.g. by ...
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In ConEmu how to pause on click
Windows cmd.exe pauses execution on left click,
how do I achieve the same in ConEmu?
Currently it selects the text but executes and scrolls forwards.
(useful for inspecting mass amount of output)
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Executing powershell from ConEmu command prompt does nothing
If I open a regular Command prompt in Win 10, via <Win key>, cmd, and at the prompt I type powershell, I get a PowerShell command prompt.
But if I get a Windows command prompt in ConEmu (v.18.06....
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Open new tab with current directory in WSL2 by ConEmu
I'm using WSL2 with ComEmu.
When I just setup a task only by wsl.exe it open the bash with /mnt/c/Users/username directory. So I set up the command like this.
wsl.exe -cur_console:pm:/mnt ~
With this ...
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Removing an attached application from ConEmu/undoing "Attach to..."
I just started using ConEmu as I liked the tabbed feature (sometimes I hate having a python CLI and CMD and R and git and whatever else all open in their own windows - gets tricky to immediately ...
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How to specify startup directory for WSL (Ubuntu) in ConEmu in Windows 10
I have installed WSL2 with Windows 10 and downloaded and set up Ubuntu successfully.
I have installed and set up ConEmu terminal to run Ubuntu successfully.
But ConEmu opens Ubuntu in C:\Users\MyUsers
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Can you increase the console popup menu with task submenu entries?
I have to work with a lot of vms and I'm using task submenu to group vms in console popup menu. The issue is that now I have more vms than entries in the task sub-menu to create putty sessions.
I ...
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Terminal editors (nano, vim, etc) wipe terminal history on exit
I have recently upgraded from WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) version 1 to version 2. I am having a problem with using editors; some times, when I exit Nano or Vim, it wipes my history. I still ...
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Cannot clear history of cmder / conemu
On Windows 10, I want to clear the entire history of the cmder /conemu command and bash window commands. However, I cannot delete even if I use the following approaches:
Open .history file in %...
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Run the same command on all conemu tabs
I would like to know from friends who use conemu if there is any way in Terminator to execute the same command in some or all of the open tabs of the console.
I researched but I have not found a way ...
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ConEmu cuts off script execution and requires input when large text is printed
I'm running a bash script in ConEmu that at one point prints json text which has multiple lines. At this point, the printed text is cut off with "--more--", execution is interrupted and ...
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Settings for Cmder (conemu) minimize to tray
Where to find the settings than when I close the terminal from here
to force it to close actually instead of being minimized to tray?
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New console equivalent in the new windows terminal
Migrating from ConEmu to the new Windows Terminal, and looking for behavior similar to NewConsole.
For reference, I'm running a bat file containing the following in ConEmu:
cmd /c ".\Sample1.bat&...
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How to stop ConEmu launching new process from taskbar?
When I click on the ConEmu icon in the Windows Taskbar, it launches a new tab (containing the default bash.exe). Is there anyway to stop this so that it just switches to the window I was using?
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How to start elevated ConEmu default task from command line?
For the purpose of defining shortcut keys in an AutoHotkey script, I want a command line that will start the default task elevated. I have a matching task that starts elevated, however, since the ...
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How to make ConEmu release prompt instead of closing tab, in case of cmd error?
I am opening a set of tabs in Conemu, using the following start_all.bat file:
"C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu64.exe" /cmd @C:\Users\Me\Desktop\start_scripts\aeg_tabs.txt
aeg_tabs.txt file ...
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Default terminal + default task
I have enabled the "default terminal for console applications". Now when I run "cmd", I get a ConEmu terminal. This is fine and what I want.
Furthermore, I have defined a task to launch TCC/LE ...
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I want to ssh to my NAS and connect to a docker instance running there, how can I do this?
Setup: Windows 10 WSL
Working commands to open a shell on the NAS and then connect to docker instance
ssh [email protected] -i ./qnap_001.pem
[~] # docker exec -it ubuntu /bin/bash
root@ubuntu:/#
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The “default” version of bash for windows is Ubuntu 14 for me. I'm unable to use Ubuntu 18 in apps like ConEmu/Cmder as a result
=== Issue ===
I'm attempting to run Ubuntu 18 in ConEmu/Cmder in Windows 10. However, the setup for Cmder says to use this path: %windir%\system32\bash.exe ~ -cur_console:p which runs Ubuntu 14. I ...
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How do enable colors in cmder for cmd.exe?
I'm using Cmder on Windows 10. When I launch a regular console ({cmd::Cmder}) I get the colorful prompt as usual, like so:
Regular styled cmder
I've created a custom task to setup a Visual Studio ...
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How to get command-line colors for the root user on Linux
I'm using Windows 10 + Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
to run Kali Linux.
In ConEmu, the color works correctly for a normal user,
but not for the root user.
How can I fix this?
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ConEmu: create text that links to URLs
I'm trying to find out if it's possible in ConEmu to make clickable non-URL like text, that links to an URL. Just like on webpages.
I found this page about a bunch of terminal emulators and ...
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Remove or change tab's console icon in ConEmu
I'm using ConEmu, Is there any way to remove, or change, tab's console icon?
I didn't find any related option.
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Send text to ConEmu tab
I want to send text to a specific (not active) ConEmu tab.
Sending to active tab with works fine.
ConEmuC -GuiMacro:0 print("cd /tmp")
But when I try to use tab number as specified in https://...
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Strange info boxes appears from time to time about 7zip or WinRar
I'm using ConEmu portable for win64 and from time to time this dialogs appears. Even when I working with other app. How to turn this off?
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Odd terminals splitting/panning - compared to IDEs/text editors
All terminals I've seen have odd (as for me) behavior about splitting. I expecting much from the new Windows Terminal, but they made this functionality as all terminals do, so I am wondering, is this ...
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Conemu - Highlighter - Detect custom strings via regex, and make them clickable (Jira Ticket Links)
A lot of the work I do is off Jira tickets, so one example is a git branch will be called something like ABC-1234, which is the Jira ticket ID.
I was wondering if there was any way to make a pattern ...
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Open a new tab in ConEmu, in the same directory (WSL)
Trying to achieve the same as this question.
But with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
ConEmu documentation states that shell via PS1 and ANSI:
This is the only option available for Bash on Ubuntu ...
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Wait for a process to complete in Cmder \ ConEmu
Executive Summary:
For software development debugging purposes, I’m using Cmder 1.3.12 for Windows 10 x64.
If, say, I run in a cmd window java –jar app2.jar, I get output logs (inside cmd) and, as ...
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conemu: create new split from wsl bash
I use -new_console:s(v) to create new splits via command line( command prompt, cmd.exe), for eg
putty.exe -new_console:s <options>
I recently installed WSL and made it default shell.
I am not ...
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ConEmu always starts with deleting a OneDrive user profile folder
I have ConEmu installed even before I have upgraded from Win7 to Win10.
For quite a while whenever I start ConEmu without a specific task, the following command gets executed:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd....
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Is it possible to open multiple tabs in ConEmu and run a command in each of them with one click? (or with Autohotkey)
I'm developing an application that uses multiple microservices (springboot apps) that i have to start when i'm setting up the enviornment. Is the a way to open multiple tabs in ConEmu and run in them ...
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Avoid confirmation on Ctr+C
Is there any way to terminate a job with one Hotkey or something like?
Right now I need confirm with extra hit on
Y
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Ctr+C
I am using ConEmu.
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