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Console 2: The Windows Command Prompt Replacement

Console 2: The Windows Command Prompt Replacement
Ben Kittrell - 09 13, 2006 @ 03:29PM
Comments: 9

Console I've been searching for a long time, and I was starting to think I'd be better off looking for Sasquatch, but I finally found it.  It's a free(as in beer), lightweight, stable, configurable, transparent, tabbed, command line terminal for windows.  I previously posted about PromptPal , but after using it for awhile I found it to be flaky, and not worth paying for.

Anyway, it's called Console , and it's a SourceForge project.  It's exactly what I've been looking for, and I highly recommend if you spend any amout of time on the command line.  I downloaded the latest beta, cause I'm hardcore like that.  I wanted to make sure I got all the latest goodies.  Seems pretty stable so far.  It looks like the project is pretty active.

One of the coolest features is the ability to plug-in any shell.  So you can even configure it to run cygwin.  Between this, the transparency support, mulitple tabs, and background images, I'm pretty freakin happy right now.

Just try it out, trust me.  If you've been looking for something like this, then this is the one you've been waiting for. 

Comments: 9

Comments

1. Chris - 09 16, 2006 @ 03:04AM

Oh this is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for *ages* - superb find!!

2. dar512 - 03 28, 2007 @ 10:54AM

Are you aware that there is a Windows native rxvt in the cygwin distrib? I haven't looked at Console, so it may be better, but the rxvt.exe in cygwin works fine. It will do background images using pixmaps. I don't know about transparency.

3. jonie - 03 31, 2007 @ 05:14PM

It would be great if it wasn't slow as a clam

4. Jason - 04 13, 2007 @ 06:01PM

A couple of things - anybody know how to stop console (2.00.130) from automatically moving to the end while scrolling through the buffer?

And to dar152 - rxvt under cygwin is buggy. It's also no longer supported. I close it and it doesn't close all programs under some circumstances which is why I was looking for something else.

5. guest - 05 04, 2007 @ 05:54PM

im looking for a cmd replacement that makes it easier to cut and paste and scroll without using the mouse

can console do this?

6. Ken Liu (link) - 07 25, 2007 @ 09:08PM

Console is great! I just stumbled across it yesterday, and coincientally stumbled across your blog today (via del.icio.us). I use Macs at home, but am stuck with WinXP at work - Console makes command-line work on Windows much nicer.

7. Adam - 09 21, 2007 @ 01:50PM

I would also recommend Poderosa. Not sure it can do command.exe, but it does cygwin and SSH real nicely. It is tabbed, it's even paned, and copy and paste is a breeze (Alt+C and Alt+V, or right click). But console does a good job for a windows shell replacement.

8. oneofmany - 09 25, 2007 @ 04:12PM

console 2 is awsome. Thanks man. I saw a couple of other references to it on other sites and people seem to like it a lot. It's nice to see that there is a terminal for windows that can rival the unix ones.

9. Benjamin Wagaman (link) - 12 21, 2007 @ 02:46PM

Great find! Thanks for sharing.

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