WindTerm 2.4.0 Prerelease 2

Spotlight

Dynamic memory compression

No terminal or text editor has ever been able to dynamically compress document memory during use. But WindTerm does now! Now you only need 100m memory to output 100 million lines of text for seq 1 100000000 command.

Benchmark

• None Scheme without styling, folding, outlining etc., Word Wrap is disabled.

Memory Usage(MB)	WindTerm 2.3.1	WindTerm 2.4.0 Prerelease 2	Compression
seq 1 10,000,000	95.7MB	89MB	93%
seq 1 100,000,000	860.1MB	100.7MB	11.7%

• Linux Scheme with styling, folding, outlining etc., Word Wrap is disabled.

Memory Usage(MB)	WindTerm 2.3.1	WindTerm 2.4.0 Prerelease 2	Compression
seq 1 10,000,000	212MB	143.3MB	67.6%
seq 1 100,000,000	1990.2MB	334.8MB	16.8%

More performance data will be provided in the future, including comparisons with other Terminals.

Free Type Mode Intro Video

Free type mode lets you using the mouse to quickly move the cursor, select text, and drag and drop text, either when typing shell commands, or in applications such as VI, Emacs, everything is as convenient as in a text editor.

• Move the cursor by Alt + Mouse Click.
  For convenience, when the Term is xterm or xterm-256color, only a mouse click is required to move the cursor.
• For the current line containing the cursor:
  Drag mouse to select text.
  Double-click to select a word.
  Triple-click to select the line.
  Shift + Click to select a piece of text.

Note:

WindTerm 2.4.0 changes the upgrade method to simplify subsequent upgrades or cloud synchronization. Please read the Upgrade to learn more.

WindTerm 2.4.0 starts integrating clink. If you are upgrading from a previous version, please use the menu item Session Pane - Right-click Menu - Import - Shell Sessions to regenerate cmd and admin:cmd sessions.

Usage:

Windows

Version	Architecture	Operating Systems
WindTerm_2.4.0_Prerelease_1_Windows_Portable_x86_64	x86_64	Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11

Upgrade

Versions before Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory and quit.
2. Replace the new .wind/profiles folder with the old profiles folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

Versions after Version 2.4.0

1. Start WindTerm and select the profiles directory containing the old .wind folder.
2. It is recommended to choose the Home Directory to facilitate subsequent upgrades.

If the .wind folder needs to be moved to another system:

1. Quit WindTerm.
2. Replace the new .wind folder with the old .wind folder.
3. Restart WindTerm and all the sessions and configuration will be restored.

The .wind folder is cross-platform.

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.

Changes in Version 2.4.0 Prerelease 2 (2022-4-12):

Features:

• [APP] Update the third-party libraries and tools to the latest version: #48
  • gsudo v1.2.0
• [APP] Supports dynamic memory compression, typically 20% to 90% of the working memory load can be reduced.
• [APP] Supports system proxy.
• [APP] Supports global proxy, including No Proxy, System Proxy, Http Proxy and Socks v5 Proxy.
• [GUI] Add XServer button to the menu bar.
• [GUI] Supports opening the Profiles Directory Dialog via menu item File - Preferences - Profiles Directory.
• [SESSION] Supports delayed sending of commands that are automatically executed after startup. The default delay is 1 second. #428
• [SESSION] Supports free type mode that allows the use of the mouse to move the cursor, select text and drag and drop text. #239 Intro video
  • Drag mouse to select text.
  • Double-click to select a word.
  • Triple-click to select the line.
  • Shift + Click to select a piece of text.
  • Move the cursor by Alt + Mouse Click. For convenience, when the Term is xterm or xterm-256color, only a mouse click is required to move the cursor.
• [SSH] Supports automatically opening the internal X Server on startup.
• [SSH] Supports configuring VcXsrv Windows X Server, including Display number, Window mode, Clipboard, Keyboard etc.
• [SSH] Supports VcXsrv Windows X Server extensions.
  • XTEST
  • SECURITY
  • XINERAMA
  • XFIXES
  • XFree86-Bigfont
  • RENDER
  • RANDR
  • COMPOSITE
  • DAMAGE
  • MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
  • DOUBLE-BUFFER
  • RECORD
  • DPMS
  • X-Resource
  • GLX
• [SSH] Supports setting custom environment variables for ProxyCommand.
• [SSH] Reduce the remote tunnels check time to 0.5 second to speed up the transfer. #444
• [SSH] Tunnels will open KeepAlive by default to prevent being disconnected by timeout. #557
• [SSH] JumpServer will open KeepAlive by default to prevent being disconnected by timeout.
• [SHELL] The cmd and admin:cmd sessions support rich completion, history, and line-editing capabilities by integrating the clink. #585
• [TERM] Supports OSC 133;A, OSC 133;B, OSC 133;C, OSC 133;D to set the start position and end position of prompts and outputs.

Improvements:

• [API] Changed api names from Show*Dialog to Open*Dialog, for example, showFocusModeDialog is changed to openFocusModeDialog.
• [GUI] Added new list and table widgets, and support button bar at the bottom.
• [GUI] Added Warning state and corresponding color to the SlipButton widget.
• [GUI] Line feeds are no longer included when selecting by line.
• [SSH] Tunnels will no longer be forced closed when a non-critical error occurs.
• [SESSION] When a SOCKS5 error occurs, more detailed error information will be provided.

Bugs:

• [APP] When a session using dumb system is disconnected, executing Clear Screen will cause the application to crash. #553 #629
• [APP] When a session is disconnected, clicking the hyperlink will cause the application to crash.
• [GUI] Resizing the Filer pane will cause a black color block. #608
• [GUI] Switching a session from sync channel A to sync channel B causes the channel prompt message bar to disappear.
• [GUI] The environment variable of the process of the Shell session cannot be set to multi-line text.
• [GUI] When the environment variable being typed in the Process Environment dialog did not exist, the variable value in the text box was incorrectly emptied.
• [GUI] When the session is disconnected, the transfer items in the transfer bar cannot be manipulated. #547
• [SSH] When the server does not provide any authentication method, no related error message is displayed.
• [SERIAL] The log folder cannot be created correctly when the session name happens to be a system reserved name, such as CON, NUL, COM, LPT, AUX, PRN etc. #624
• [SCHEME] When the session's system is set to non-linux, punctuation is not colored correctly.
• [SESSION] When the session is disconnected due to a timeout, no The remote host closed the connection is reported.
• [SESSION] SOH, STX, ETX, EOT, ACK, DLE, DC1, DC2, DC3, DC4, NAK, SYN, ETB, CAN, EM, SUB, FS, GS, RS, US are displayed incorrectly. #539
• [SESSION] When page up and down when executing less /etc/services, ESC M characters are displayed incorrectly. #621
• [TERM] Failed to pass the test of cursor-control characters inside ESC sequences of vttest.

Changes in Version 2.4.0 Prerelease 1 (2022-3-20):

Translation:

• [FRENCH] Update the language file, contributed by EvoWebFrance@github and LuxNegra@github. #499

Features:

• [APP] Supports specifying the path of the .wind profiles folder to facilitate subsequent upgrades and cloud synchronization. #161 #411 #438 #529 #537 #541 #601
• [GUI] Add Anything Palette and Tunnels buttons to the menu bar.
• [TAB] Supports using Alt+1 to Alt+5 to select the first to fifth tab, and Alt+0 to select the last tab. #82 #86 #420
• [LOG] The log file name and content templates support including %z - Time Zone.
• [SSH] Supports independent tunnels opening, stopping and management. #189 #194 #373 #444
• [SSH] When the listening port of a tunnel is set to 0, dynamic port allocation is supported.
• [SESSION] Supports setting the background color of the tab of a session.
• [SESSION] Supports using the shortcut key Ctrl+D to close the unconnected or disconnected session. #397 #526
• [SESSION] Supports new proxy type ProxyCommand. #557
• [SESSION] Supports importing "ProxyTelnetCommand" field from PuTTY configuration.
• [SESSION] Supports clearing the screen locally. #335 #447 #530 #553 #571
• [SCHEME] Added dumb system to support highlighting, folding, outlining and clearing the screen locally of dumb devices.
• [SCHEME] Supports highlighting IPv6 and MAC.

Improvements:

• [GUI] Simplify the menu items in the menu bar to provide more screen space.
• [GUI] The pop-up widget of the More button in the toolbar is modified to a menu.
• [TAB] Even when only one tab is open, the activation mark of the tab is displayed.
• [TAB] Improve the appearance of a tab by increasing the transparency of the background color and reducing its drawing area.
• [TRANSLATION] Automatically handle mnemonic characters in strings to be translated.

Bugs:

• [GUI] When using the shortcut key Ctrl+Shift+W to close a tab, the confirm dialog will not pop up.
• [GUI] The text in the input box is sometimes displayed in gray as placeholder text.
• [GUI] After modifying the name or icon of a session, reconnecting the session did not use the new name and icon correctly.
• [GUI] When the bottom dock is expanded, the tooltip of the Expand button should be Shrink, not Expand.
• [TAB] The background color of the close button in the tab of the Shell Pane is not transparent.
• [LOG] Blank lines in the log are incorrectly logged as %v. #556
• [SESSION] When modifying DataType of a Tcp Session to text and saving, the value is incorrectly saved as binary.
• [SESSION] When the session is disconnected, some cached text may not be correctly output to the screen.
• [SESSION] When the session is logged out, no Remote channel is closed is reported.

Intro Videos

• Free Type Mode