A new generation of free open source terminal tool, so cool

WindTerm  is a professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial open source terminal, written in C language, completely free for commercial and non-commercial use, no restrictions, the source code is under the terms of the Apache-2.0 licenseprovided below.

has some of the following features:

• It consumes less resources and can be used without installation and decompression

• Multi-platform support (Linux, Mac,Win)

• Implemented SSH v2, Telnet, Raw Tcp, Serial, Shell protocols.

• Session authentication supports SSH automatic execution.

• Support SSH ProxyCommand or ProxyJump.

• Support SSH proxy forwarding.

• Support SSH automatic login using password, public key, keyboard interaction, gssapi-with-mic.

• Support X11 forwarding.

• Supports direct/local port forwarding, reverse/remote port forwarding and dynamic port forwarding.

• Supports XModem, YModem and ZModem.

• Integrated with sftp and scp clients, it supports downloading, uploading, deleting, renaming, creating new files/directories, etc.

• Integrated with local file manager, support move to, copy to, delete, rename, create new files/directories, etc.

• Support Windows Cmd, PowerShell and Cmd, PowerShell as administrator.

• Support Linux bash, zsh, powershell core, etc.

• Support MacOS bash, zsh, powershell core, etc.

Installation

WindTerm Supports three platforms: Linux, Mac, and Windows. We only need to go to the Git code repository Release page to select our corresponding platform to install and downloadUnzip it and use it, address: https://github.com/kingToolbox/WindTerm/releases .

Use

• When starting for the first time, we need to choose a directory to store the configuration file, generally keep the default.The default interface after startup is as follows.

• We can click the New Session button above to start the SSH connection.

• Fill in your hostname, port (default 22) and label in the new session window that pops up.

• Then click the  connect  button to start the remote connection, enter the user name and password in the pop-up dialog box to log in to the remote host.We can close some unnecessary windows and keep only the session window to make the whole interface more refreshing.Now we can execute some commands on the remote machine in the session window. WindTerm also supports command auto-completion, which is very convenient.

Configuration

• In addition, we can also customize some functions of  WindTerm , click the upper left menu Session -> Preferences->Settings,You can open the session configuration dialog. For example, in the  Applications  tab, we can set  no session at startup, so that the last session will not be automatically connected to the next startup.

• In addition, we can also customize the font of the session window terminal, you can set the font, weight and size, as shown below.

• Under the  Appearance  tab, we can set the language, now  WindTerm  already supports Chinese, so it is very convenient, you can also modify the theme and window opacity, you can customizeConfigure it to your liking.

• For example, we chose the theme  dige-black-and-white  here, except that the terminal will be displayed in black and the rest of the windows will be displayed in white style, as shown below.

• In addition, if there are multiple session windows, when we hover the mouse to other session window tabs, it will be automatically activated, we can set it in the  tag tab asNever, avoid misuse.

• Sometimes we need to copy the data in the terminal, we need to select the content and then copy the operation, it is more troublesome, we can directly copy the selected content in the  text tab Check it, so that only the selected content will be copied, which can improve a lot of efficiency.

• In addition, we can easily upload and download files through  WindTerm , open the  file manager, we only need to drag the file to this window and it will be automatically uploaded, and to download, just selectRight-click on the corresponding file or directory and select Download.

Summary

In addition to these basic functions, WindTerm  also has a lot of functions, such as a lock screen function, the author also wrote on the blog https://kingtoolbox.github.io/There are many articles about  WindTerm , you can check them out if you are interested.

Project address

https://github.com/kingToolbox/WindTerm

Source: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/GCn-fv2mxk5PWsLhPGN4cg