Is there a multi-tab terminal replacement for Cygwin's terminal?

Randomize

Posted 2011-03-31T15:19:06.067

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@DanielBeck this is not a duplicate question. It's a duplicate answer. Randomize is clearly looking for a multitab terminal for a Unixy shell on Windows---whereas the question you marked it as a duplicate of seems to be agnostic to shell type. Incidentally, both questions can be solved the same way. But I consider them two separate questions. – Kazark – 2013-06-06T15:48:31.307

@Kazark Your edit made them duplicate, because Cygwin doesn't have its own terminal, but uses whatever you launch it in. – Daniel Beck – 2013-06-06T16:25:37.907

1@DanielBeck But the questioner may not know that. I certainly did not; an item called "Cygwin Terminal" appears in the start menu after install. It has its own icon; are you say that it is the same terminal as the default on on Windows? – Kazark – 2013-06-06T17:05:38.857

Answers

You can use Console to achieve this. Simply configure the Shell under the Settings page to point to Cygwin.bat.

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Gaff

Posted 2011-03-31T15:19:06.067

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@Chuim - It seems to be working fine for me. Console 2.00.148 (32-bit according to Process Manager) running Cygwyn64 Terminal over Win 7 64-bit. – ysap – 2015-11-03T18:06:58.357

thanks, it works fine! just a question: in the Settings->Console under Startup Dir if I set the path dos-like (c:\path|...) or in *nix like (/cygdrive/c/... with or without /cygdrive) it doesn't come up at the specified path. Do you know how to set this? Thanks – Randomize – 2011-03-31T16:04:45.917

I'm honestly not sure as it's been a while since I personally used Console. However if you can't find a way to set it properly in there, you could always edit your .bashrc file in your Cygwin installation to change to the desired folder upon login. – Gaff – 2011-03-31T16:19:02.543

But if so every time I launch a new tab it will be CygWin. How can I use different tabs for different programs like what is in your snapshot? – ziyuang – 2013-03-21T00:06:09.703

I tried to use Console2 (last release dates 2011) to run Cygwin 64 bits in my Windows 7 64 bits and it didn't work. Researching a bit I was able to find ConsoleZ which is a fork of the former that is properly updated and was able to support the environment I described.

– Chuim – 2013-12-04T22:33:41.947

The standard answer to this question is GNU Screen.

Wikipedia has some alternatives, such as tmux.

Nitrodist

Posted 2011-03-31T15:19:06.067

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tmux is working great under cygwin for me at the moment, I just needed to select tmux in the list of installed packages. That said, I still like having tabs in addition to split windows just like the OP. – akom – 2017-04-16T15:15:42.933

But unfortunately tmux doesn't work under cygwin – Ben Hughes – 2013-08-05T22:34:38.640

If it is not a problem for you to start sshd and use cygwin via "ssh localhost", try MTPuTTY. It worked great for me.

Features:

full access to PuTTY configurability (and I do not know any better terminal emulator for windows)
configurable keybindings in MTPuTTY (everything I needed)

Kamil Nowosad

Posted 2011-03-31T15:19:06.067

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mobaxterm might be what you're looking for - basic set of cywin tools (and you can use your own) multi tabs, and an x server baked right in

Journeyman Geek

Posted 2011-03-31T15:19:06.067

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