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_2.2.1_Linux_Portable.tar.gz && cd ./WindTerm_2.2.1 && 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.

Note:

Sorry, since the MacOS version has not been stable so far, the release of the WindTerm 2.2.0 MacOS version has been cancelled and it is expected that a brand new stable universal app will be released in December.

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 and MacOS version does not have this problem.

Translation:

• [CHINESE] Update the language file, contributed by MosamXu@github. #246

Features:

• [GUI] Supports Multilingual User Interface. #6 #22 #43 #88 #114 #168 #176 #211 #217
  • Arabic - عربي
  • Bengali - বাংলা
  • Chinese (Simplified) - 中文 (简体)
  • Chinese (Traditional) - 正體中文 (繁體)
  • Czech - Čeština
  • Danish - Dansk
  • Dutch - Nederlands
  • English - English
  • Finnish - suomi
  • French - Français
  • German - Deutsch
  • Greek - Ελληνικά
  • Hebrew - עברית
  • Hindi - हिन्दी
  • Hungarian - magyar
  • Icelandic - íslenska
  • Indonesian - Bahasa Indonesia
  • Italian - Italiano
  • Japanese - 日本語
  • Khmer - ខ្មែរ
  • Korean - 한국어
  • Malay - Melayu
  • Norwegian (Bokmål) - Norsk bokmål
  • Persian - فارسی
  • Polish - Polski
  • Portuguese - Português
  • Punjabi (India) - ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (ਭਾਰਤ)
  • Russian - Русский
  • Spanish - Español
  • Swedish - Svenska
  • Thai - ไทย
  • Turkish - Türkçe
  • Ukrainian - Українська
  • Urdu - اُردو
  • Vietnamese - Tiếng Việt
• [GUI] Added the global setting dialog, Menubar - Session (1) - Preferences - Settings.
• [GUI] Supports setting the default font of the text view, Settings - Text - Font. #148
• [GUI] Supports nesting session groups when the group name contains >, like x>y>z. #91 #177
• [GUI] Supports opening a specific session or set of sessions on startup. #108
• [GUI] The address bar and the menu of Add Tab button supports nesting session groups.
• [GUI] Supports alternate background colors for text lines, Settings - Text - Alternate line background color.
• [GUI] Supports setting whether to show the Paste dialog on the main screen, Settings - Terminal - Show paste dialog on the main screen. #214
• [GUI] Added an identity file path input box in the Session Setting - SSH - Authentication dialog.
• [TAB] Added Duplicate Tab to the customizable double-click operations of the tab. #258
• [SSH] Supports SSH ControlMaster. #173
• [SSH] Supports setting mouse tracking events. #144
• [SHELL] Added a new Shell pane makes it more easier to use shells, such as Bash, Cmd, Powershell, WSL, etc.
• [TERM] Added GB2312, GBK and many Single-Byte Character Sets. #208 #264
  • GB2312
  • GBK
  • hp-roman8
  • IBM850
  • IBM866
  • IBM874
  • KOI8-U
  • macintosh
  • TSCII
  • TIS-620
  • Windows-1250
  • Windows-1251
  • Windows-1252
  • Windows-1253
  • Windows-1254
  • Windows-1255
  • Windows-1256
  • Windows-1257
  • Windows-1258
  • WINSAMI2
• [TERM] Supports Xterm formatOtherKey to allow the format of the escape sequence used to report modifieed keys to be overrided.
• [TERM] Supports OSC 12 to set the text cursor color.
• [TERM] Supports OSC 112 to reset the text cursor color. #160 #188 #229
• [TERM] Supports OSC 104 to reset the palette colors.
• [TERM] Supports CSI > m to reset key modifier options. #232
• [TERM] Supports CSI > 1 ; Ⓝ m to select format for modifier keys in cursor key press reports. #232
• [TERM] Supports CSI > 2 ; Ⓝ m to select format for modifier keys in function-key key press reports. #232
• [TERM] Supports CSI > 4 ; Ⓝ m to select format for modifier keys in other key press reports. #232
• [TERM] Supports setting the number of lines each time the mouse wheel scrolls in the alternative screen. #183
• [TERM] Supports hard reset, soft reset, and character set reset of the term. #162 #199
• [QUICKBAR] Added a shortcut menu containing Modify and Remove actions to the command button to quickly manage the button.
• [MESSAGEBAR] Supports simultaneous display of multiple messages in expanded mode.

Improvements:

• [APP] Redesigned, rewritten, and refactored more than 15,000 lines of core code to enhance flexibility, reliability and robustness.
• [GUI] Improve the column selection and copy in auto-wrap mode. #250
• [GUI] Supports popping up the right-click menu in the blank space of the Explorer Pane.
• [GUI] Disable the pop-up context menu of the term view in the login wizard.
• [GUI] Restore the last configuration when the Log Dialog is opened. #240
• [GUI] The font combo box in the settings dialog uses bold type to indicate fixed-width fonts.
• [GUI] Change the Yes To All button of the Close Tab dialog box to the Don't show again check box.
• [GUI] Remove the extra 10% of the line height to display more lines on the screen and make the table lines and so on look more continuous. #146
• [GUI] Remove unnecessary scheme style terminal.text, terminal.text.1 and terminal.text.2 to avoid interference with the default font settings. #202
• [GUI] Supports restoring the Focus Mode after restarting. #175 #197
• [GUI] Supports restoring the visibility of the menu bar and status bar after restarting. #174
• [FILER] Restore the last dialog geometry when opening the upload and download dialog. #247
• [FILER] When downloading a single file, the menu item Open Target Directory will select the file when opening the target folder.
• [LOG] The log file name template supports including IP addresses. #227
• [SESSION] Supports pressing Enter to reconnect the session when the error "Remote channel is closed" is detected.
• [TERM] Add and modify hundreds of pre-defined key values under Normal keypad mode and Application keypad mode of vt52, vt100, vt102, vt220, vt340, vt420, vt520, xterm and xterm-256color. #171
• [MESSAGEBAR] Added the time stamp of the message to the tooltip.

Bugs:

• [APP] The application may crash when closing a connecting session. #206
• [GUI] Sometimes the text is automatically selected by mistake when moving the mouse. #138
• [GUI] After switching to hexadecimal mode and switching back, the caret becomes a vertical bar.
• [GUI] When dragging the vertical scroll bar to the starting position of the column selection of hundres of lines, the carets of some lines does not blink correctly.
• [GUI] Double-clicking the folding margin cannot correctly select the text in the folding area.
• [GUI] When the average width of the font is less than the width of the space, it may cause unnecessary text wrapping. #171
• [GUI] The shortcut key Alt+A cannot be used to check/uncheck the Auto login next time check box in the login wizard. #241
• [GUI] When the session name is the same as the group name, the session node is not visible in Session Pane. #225
• [GUI] The title of the rename group dialog should be Rename Group instead of Add Group. #191
• [GUI] After restarting in the focus mode, QuickBar does not display the groups correctly. #204
• [GUI] The password input box in the lock screen cannot get the focus when the window is activated. #218
• [GUI] Cannot hide the Symbol margin. #221
• [GUI] When the Paste dialog was initially opened, the number of characters and lines of the pasted text could not be displayed correctly.
• [GUI] When the browse buttons of X/Y/Z Modem - Download/Upload Directory in the Session Settings dialog are clicked, the browse dialog is not displayed.
• [GUI] When all sessions are closed, the Local/Remote button in the status bar is not hidden correctly.
• [GUI] Executing Close All Views will cause a small amount of memory leaks.
• [LINUX] Cannot use fcitx input method to input Chinese. #39 #125 #203
• [LINUX] Cannot minimize the window correctly after turning off always on top mode and focus mode. #198
• [LOG] The duplicated session cannot create the log file correctly.
• [LOG] When exiting or disconnecting a session, the log file sometimes fails to record all the output.
• [SHELL] When no Windows subsystem is installed, a large number of invalid Linux Distributions will be imported. #243
• [SHELL] Incorrect wsl -l output parsing may result in incomplete import of all installed Linux Distributions.
• [SSH] Cannot log in using an identity file in a path that contains non-English characters. #159
• [TERM] Executing set nowrap in vim will cause the first characters of wrapped lines to be displayed incorrectly. #260
• [TERM] When automatically wrapping the long lines, the actual displayed characters in each line is one more than the number of columns of the window.
• [TERM] CSI J, CSI 0 J and CSI 1 J do not place the text erased from the top line in the scroll history. #124
• [TERM] Wrong left arrow, up arrow, right arrow and down arrow key values make it impossible to use the arrow keys in Midnight Commander. #171
• [TERM] The length of the characters at the end of the GB18030 encoded string is calculated incorrectly and causes garbled characters. #264
• [FILER] When the language is set to Chinese, the file type in the Property dialog is displayed as garbled characters. #242
• [EXPLORER] The synchronization channel marks that were enabled during hiding could not be displayed correctly.
• [EXPLORER] Sometimes the icon and text of the list item are not displayed completely. #256
• [EXPLORER] When the vertical scroll bar is visible, the close button is not displayed completely.
• [QUICKBAR] When the Rename Group dialog box is canceled, the group name will be cleared. #166 #191
• [QUICKBAR] When multiline text is sent to Windows Cmd, the carriage return of each line is not executed correctly.
• [QUICKBAR] When no group is set to be visible, the Quick button cannot pop up the menu correctly.

Bug Fixes in Version 2.2.1 (2021-11-24):

• [APP] When the Transfer Pane is not visible, executing Transfer Pane: Open Target Directory in the Command Pallete may cause the application to crash. #282
• [GUI] When the login fails, the error cannot be displayed in Login Wizard in time. #276
• [GUI] When an error message is displayed, clicking the Continue button will cause the interface to jitter a litter.
• [GUI] In the Charset combobox of the Session Setting dialog, the list of charsets contains duplicates and is not sorted in case insensitive order.
• [SSH] Cannot connect to the Jump Server whose ip adress is IPv6. #280
• [SHELL] When the window size changes, Windows shells, such as Cmd, Powershell and WSL will not renegotiate the window size correctly again.
• [TERM] Cannot input the square brackets with Alt Gr + 8 and Alt Gr + 9 when using the PT keyboard layout. #271
• [TERM] Cannot input the +, -, *, / and Enter keys on the keypad. #279 #286
• [TERM] In the org-mode of Emacs, the key value of the combination of the Enter or Return key and the Ctrl, Shift and Altmodifier keys is incorrect.
• [TERM] After executing set mouse=a in vim, the mouse wheel event is not sent to the remote end for processing.
• [TERM] The long lines are not wrapped correctly. #270 #285

Bug Fixes in Version 2.2.2 (2021-11-29):

• [TERM] Cannot execute the shortcut key Alt+X in Emacs. #294
• [TERM] When using the serial port, garbled characters are sometimes generated. #28 #66 #235 #292
• [TERM] When part of the text of a long line is pushed into the scrollback, a line break will be inserted to divide the line into two single lines. #270
• [TERM] When the session is reconnected, the text of the current screen is not pushed into the scrollback correctly.

Roadmap of v2.3 (Mid-December, for reference only)

• Automatic Completion
• Command Snippet Description
• Move Caret By Mouse #239
• Free Type Mode
• SSH Agent Forwaring (Postponed to a later version )
• New memory allocator and manager and garbage collector. (Postponed to a later version )
• Search in sessions. (Postponed to a later version )

Version 2.3.0 (2022-2-14)

If you want, you can try WindTerm 2.3.0 now.