What is WindTerm?
WindTerm is a free, open-source, and lightweight terminal emulator for Windows. It aims to provide a modern and user-friendly terminal experience with features such as:
- Multiple tabbed terminals
- Horizontal and vertical split panes
- Customizable themes and styles
- Transparency effects and background image support
- Shortcut keys for common operations
- Supports PowerShell, Command Prompt, WSL, Git Bash, etc
- Sessions and workflows for saving configurations
- Portable mode requiring no installation
- Extensibility with plugins
WindTerm is developed in C++ to be fast and lightweight. It runs natively on Windows without needing other runtimes installed. The project is open-source under the MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the software.
Overall, WindTerm aims to bring a smooth, aesthetically pleasing, and productive terminal environment to Windows users. Its extensive customization options combined with thoughtful UI design allow it to fit into almost any developer's workflow.
iTerm2, MobaXterm, mRemoteNG, Termux, PuTTY, Windows Terminal, Cygwin, OpenSSH, PowerShell, Tabby Terminal, ConEmu, Cmder are some alternatives to WindTerm.