SvanTerm is a terminal window manager for cygwin which supports tabbing, splitting of windows, moving splits around, searching for windows and more.
- Download the 64-bit cygwin installer:
- Run the installer to install 64-bit cygwin to it's default location (C:\cygwin64), make sure you go through the package selection and add tools you might want, some recommendations:
- bind-utils (host, dig)
- curl
- git
- mosh (latency friendly alternativ to ssh, http://mosh.mit.edu/)
- nano
- openssh (for the ssh client and ssh server)
- procps (top)
- rsync
- tig (ncurses based git history viewer)
- wget
- whois (you can always run the installer again to install more packages)
- Grab the latest release of SvanTerm
- Unpack the SvanTerm package
- Run svanterm.exe
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Ctrl-Shift-T | Create tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-W | Close tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-H | Horizontal split |
| Ctrl-Shift-V | Vertical split |
| Ctrl-Shift-C | Close active terminal |
| Ctrl-Shift-J | Select previous terminal in tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-K | Select next terminal in tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-U | Select previous tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-I | Select next tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-O | Select previous window |
| Ctrl-Shift-P | Select next window |
| Ctrl-Shift-R | Rename tab |
| Ctrl-Shift-N | New window |
| Ctrl-Shift-F | Find terminal (type what you want to search for, cycle through the results with up/down-arrows) |
| Ctrl-Shift-A | Make terminal smaller horizontally |
| Ctrl-Shift-S | Make terminal bigger horizontally |
| Ctrl-Shift-Z | Make terminal smaller vertically |
| Ctrl-Shift-X | Make terminal bigger vertically |
| Ctrl-Shift-F1 | Select tab #1 |
| ... | |
| Ctrl-Shift-F12 | Select tab #12 |
- Drag and drop the header of a terminal (the red/grey area) to dock it to another terminal/tab/window
- Drag and drop a tab to another window or a new window
- Rename tabs to custom names to make them easier to find, you can use Ctrl-Shift-F to either search for the tab name or the individual terminals
- Python 2.7 (Windows x86-64)
- PyWin32 (amd64-py2.7)
- wxPython (win64-py27)
- PyInstaller (for building binaries)