WindTerm
WindTerm
A Quicker and better SSH/Telnet/Serial/Shell/Sftp client for DevOps.
Hello WindTerm ?, hello world!
We're just beginning! If you want a high performance text editor, you can try WindEdit.
Completely FREE for commercial and non-commercial use without limitations.All released source codes (except thirdparty directory) are provided under the terms of Apache-2.0 license.
See Intro Videos
Linux binary, MacOS binary and Windows binary: https://github.com/kingToolbox/WindTerm/releases
WindTerm is a partial open source project, and the source will be gradually opened.
Open source code includes, but is not limited to, the classes that can be used independently, such as functional, algorithms, gui widgets, etc., as well as functional libraries, such as network, protocols, etc., as well as all types that require open source according to the license.
Any issues and feature requests are welcome.
Please click issues to commit an issue or a feature request.
Please click Discussion to discuss anything about SSH, SFtp, Shell(Linux shell, Windows cmd and powershell), Telnet, Serial and WindTerm.
Main Window (zsh):
Split views:
DigeWhite Theme:
SSH v2, Telnet, Raw Tcp, Serial, Shell protocols implemented. Intro Video
Supports SSH auto execution when session authenticated.
Supports SSH ControlMaster.
Supports SSH ProxyCommand or ProxyJump. Intro Video
Supports SSH agent. Intro Video
Supports SSH auto login with password, public-key, keyboard-interactive, gssapi-with-mic. Intro Video
Supports X11 forwarding. Intro Video
Supports direct/local port forwarding, reverse/remote port forwarding and dynamic port forwarding. Intro Video
Supports XModem, YModem and ZModem. Intro Video
Integrated sftp, scp client, supports download, upload, remove, rename, make new file/directory and so on. Intro Video
Integrated local file manager, supports move to, copy to, copy from, remove, rename, make new file/directory and so on.
Supports Windows Cmd, PowerShell and Cmd, PowerShell as administrator.
Supports Linux bash, zsh, powershell core and so on.
Supports MacOS bash, zsh, powershell core and so on.
Supports Windows, MacOS and Linux.
Supports Multilingual User Interface.
Supports Unicode 13.
Session dialog and session tree. Intro Video
Auto Completion. Intro Video
Free Type Mode. Intro Video
Focus Mode. Intro Video
Sync Input. Intro Video
Enhanced protection of the session username and password. Intro Video
Command palette. Intro Video
Command sender. Intro Video
Explorer Pane. Intro Video
Shell Pane.
Quick Bar. Intro Video
Paste Dialog. Intro Video
Local and remote modes with vim keybindings. (Using Shift+Enter key to switch between remote and local mode) Intro Video
Supports time stamp, folding, outlining, split views.
Supports powerline in Linux and PowerShell, e.g. Oh-My-Zsh, Oh-My-Posh. Intro Image
Supports color schemes like vscode. Intro Video
Supports searching and previewing. Intro Video
Supports highlighting the opening and closing delimiter, such as (), [], {} and the customed delimiters. Intro Video
Supports changing the UI theme. Intro Video
Supports setting the tab color. Intro Video
Supports searching over the opened tabs. Intro Video
Supports closing tabs to the right.
Supports setting the windows transparency. Intro video
Supports select-to-copy, right-click-to-paste or middle-click-to-paste.
Supports searching text online with Google, Bing, Github, Stackoverflow, Wikipedia and DuckDuckGo. Intro video
Supports hiding mouse cursor while typing.
Supports locking screen. Intro video
Supports vt100, vt220, vt340, vt420, vt520, xterm, xterm-256-colors.
Supports unicode, emojis, true-color, mouse protocol, etc.
Supports auto wrap mode. Intro Video
Protocols and terms can be customed.
All vttest tests have passed except Tektronix 4014.
Supports HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy. Intro Video
Supports Jump Server proxy. Intro Video
Supports manual and automated session logging. Intro Video
Rename and duplicate session. Intro Video
Restore last sessions and layouts when restart. Intro Video
Supports opening a specific session or set of sessions on startup.
Dynamic memory compression, typically 20% to 90% of the working memory load can be reduced.
High performance, low memory, low latency. Intro Video
The hardware used for generating the data in these benchmarks was
windows 10 - 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 and 8GB memory.
WindTerm1.72, WindTerm 1.2, FileZilla 3.48.1, WinSCP 5.17.2 (Build 10278) tests are performed on WSL(Ubuntu 18.04.2).
The version of clients:
| Application | Version | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| windterm | v1.72 | 2020-10-25 |
| windterm | v1.2 | 2020-06-15 |
| FileZilla | v3.48.1 | 2020-05-19 |
| WinScp | v5.17.2 (Build 10278) | 2020-03-09 |
All test data is for reference only.
| Download Time | Download Rate | Upload Time | Upload Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WindTerm 1.72 (Use high speed transfer) | 23s | 216.3 MB/s | 20s | 247.0 MB/s |
| WindTerm 1.72 | 23s | 214.7 MB/s | 20s | 244.0 MB/s |
| WindTerm 1.2 | 37s | 139.3 MB/s | 43s | 119.9 MB/s |
| FileZilla | 32s | 161.1 MB/s | 30s | 171.8 MB/s |
| WinSCP | 81s | 63.7 MB/s | 91s | 56.7 MB/s |
| Download Time | Download Rate | Upload Time | Upload Rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WindTerm 1.7 | 26s | 3.9 MB/s | 13s | 8.1 MB/s |
| WindTerm 1.2 | 32s | 3.4 MB/s | 10s | 10.7 MB/s |
| FileZilla | 48s | 2.2 MB/s | 35s | 3.1 MB/s |
| WinSCP | 42s | 2.6 MB/s | 12s | 8.9 MB/s |
The hardware used for generating the data in these benchmarks was
windows 10 - 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 and 8GB memory. MacOs 10.13 - 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5 and 8GB memory.
WindTerm 1.72, rxvt, putty, xterm, Windows Terminal tests are performed on WSL(Ubuntu 18.04.2).
Iterm2, kitty, Alacritty tests are performed on MacOS shell,
For WindTerm: No color scheme used in windterm. Color scheme will result in approximately 2% loss and more memory usage. For Alacritty: Only supports up to 100,000 scrollback lines, so every test use "history: 100000" setting and no memory usage measured. For Windows Terminal: Only supports up to 65,535 scrollback lines, so every test use "historySize: 65535" setting and no memory usage measured.
The version of terminals:
| Application | Version | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| windterm | v1.72 | 2020-10-25 |
| rxvt-unicode | v9.2.2 | 2016-05-14 |
| putty | v0.71 | 2019-03-16 |
| xterm | v3.30 | 2017-06-20 |
| iterm2 | v3.3.6 | 2019-10-09 |
| alacritty | v0.5.0 | 2020-07-21 |
| kitty | v0.14.6 | 2019-09-25 |
| Windows Terminal | v1.3.2651.0 | 2020-09-22 |
All test data is for reference only.
The benchmark_randomdata contains 97.6MB random text (102,401,504 bytes, 1,329,878 lines, generated and tested by random_test.sh)
In all cases, three runs were made to warm system caches. The reported numbers are the median of five runs.
Telnet:
| Lines of scrollback | Data Rate(MB/sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | unlimited | 52.1 | 106.6 |
| rxvt | 1,350,000 | 37.8 | 842.2 |
| Putty | 1,350,000 | 4.9 | 733.4 |
| xterm | 1,350,000 | 2.2 | 3328.4 |
| Windows Terminal + telnet.exe | 65,535 | 0.1 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
SSH:
| Lines of scrollback | Data Rate(MB/sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | unlimited | 41.8 | 108.5 |
| rxvt | 1,350,000 | 40.2 | 842.2 |
| Putty | 1,350,000 | 4.8 | 734.9 |
| xterm | 1,350,000 | 2.3 | 3328.4 |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 65,535 | 2.1 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
Shell:
| Lines of scrollback | Data Rate(MB/sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| iterm2 | unlimited | - (Take too long time) | more than 1300 |
| kitty | unlimited | 17.2 | 2655 |
| Alacritty | 100,000 | 41.3 | - |
| Time(sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 1.236 | 16.1 |
| rxvt | 5.082 | 633.3 |
| putty | 4.161 | 551.1 |
| xterm | 40.421 | 2500.7 |
| iterm2 | 2.116 | 146.3 |
| Kitty | 2.535 | 2376.5 |
| Alacritty | 1.162 | Not measured, use 100,000 scrollback lines setting |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 23.246 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
| Time(sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 2.287 | 24.1 |
| rxvt | 10.896 | 1266.6 |
| putty | 16.045 | 1102.6 |
| xterm | 68.154 | 5005.5 |
| iterm2 | 4.181 | 383.2 |
| Kitty | 5.620 | 4749.9 |
| Alacritty | 2.322 | Not measured, use 100,000 scrollback lines setting |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 50.381 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
| Time(sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 5.520 | 68.2 |
| rxvt | 27.533 | 3166.2 |
| putty | 45.911 | 2757.1 |
| xterm | - | Out of memory |
| iterm2 | 10.805 | 1048.3 |
| Kitty | - | Out of memory |
| Alacritty | 5.799 | Not measured, use 100,000 scrollback lines setting |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 130.371 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
| Time(sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 10.674 | 133.3 |
| rxvt | - | Out of memory |
| putty | - | Out of memory |
| xterm | - | Out of memory |
| iterm2 | 20.468 | 2231.3 |
| Kitty | - | Out of memory |
| Alacritty | 11.598 | Not measured, use 100,000 scrollback lines setting |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 264.739 | Not measured, use 65,535 scrollback lines setting |
| Time(sec) | Memory Usage(MB) | |
|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 10.167 | 0.7 |
| rxvt | 9.687 | 0.1 |
| putty | 95.382 | 0.4 |
| xterm | 286.510 | 0.1 |
| iterm2 | 25.448 | 7.4 |
| Kitty | 16.104 | 0.5 |
| Alacritty | 11.798 | Not measured, use zero scrollback lines setting |
| Windows Terminal + ssh.exe | 261.096 | Not measured, use zero scrollback lines setting |
The hardware used for generating the data in these benchmarks was
Debian 10 Vm - 4cpu and 4GB memory. For WindTerm: No color scheme used in windterm. Color scheme will result in approximately 2% loss and more memory usage. For other terminals: No memory usage measured because most of them write the history to disk or only support a limited number of lines in memory..
The version of terminals:
| Application | Version | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Windterm | v1.9 | 2020-12-22 |
| Gnome | v3.30.2 | 2018-10-22 |
| Mate Terminal | v1.20.2 | 2019-02-11 |
| Konsole | v18.04.0 | 2019-04-12 |
| Xfce4 Terminal | v0.8.7.4 | 2018-5-15 |
| QTerminal | v0.14.1 | 2019-01-26 |
All test data is for reference only.
The benchmark_randomdata contains 97.6MB random text (102,401,504 bytes, 1,329,878 lines, generated and tested by random_test.sh)
In all cases, three runs were made to warm system caches. The reported numbers are the median of five runs.
| Cost Time | |
|---|---|
| WindTerm | 1.976s |
| Gnome Terminal | 9.781s |
| Mate Terminal | 9.841s |
| Konsole | 25.050s |
| xfce4 Terminal | 10.520s |
| QTerminal | 20.763s |
| n | 1,000,000 | 2,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 (scrollback lines: 100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WindTerm | 0.846s (18.6MB) | 1.574s (26.6MB) | 4.046s (56.4MB) | 8.232s (102.2MB) | 7.748s (3.4MB) |
| Gnome Terminal | 0.920s | 2.152s | 5.271s | 11.111s | 13.109s |
| Mate Terminal | 0.822s | 1.698s | 5.943s | 10.920s | 12.290s |
| Konsole | 1.612s | 3.199s | 8.157s | 16.029s | 15.650s |
| xfce4 Terminal | 0.870s | 2.160s | 5.866s | 12.089s | 13.304s |
| QTerminal | 9.272s | 18.391s | 45.999s | 104.277s | 17.208s |
Considering the network influence on the latency, the following data is from WindEdit. DIGEdit is the text component of WindTerm.
| Min | Max | Avg | SD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WindEdit | 1.9 | 7.6 | 2.9 | 0.8 |
| Windows Notepad | 0.9 | 16.5 | 7.8 | 1.8 |
| GVim | 0.9 | 10.4 | 2.8 | 1.2 |
Shortcut Keys List
Release cycle:
4-8 weeks.
Prerelease cycle:
1~2 weeks
Resolve issues as much as possible
Improved Filer
Improved Transfer
Improved Quickbar
SSH Agent Forwaring
New memory allocator and manager and garbage collector (Postponed to a later version )
Command Snippet Description (Postponed to a later version )
SSH GSSAPI Authentication (Postponed to a later version )
SSH Agent (Postponed to a later version )
Search in sessions (Postponed to a later version )
Download: WindTerm 2.5.0 (2022-7-24)
Roadmap of version 2.x:
External tools
Protocols:
Mosh
Rlogin
Session:
Auto Complete
Chat mode
Log viewer
File transfer:
ftp, ftps
Script, macro and plugin stystem
More ...
Release Schedule:
| Version | Level | Target | Status | Timeline |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.x | Basic | Basic framework and basic features, but complete a high-performance text editor (WindEdit) as the base, and be able to use them normally. | Finished | Long long ago ~ Sprint of 2020 |
| v1.x | Manual | Perfect features and can be used by most developers in their daily work | Finished | Spring of 2020 ~ Winter of 2020 |
| v2.x | Semi automatic | Through triggers, macros, events, notifications and so on, developers can be assisted to complete some operations. | Developing | Spring of 2021 ~ Summer of 2022 |
| v3.x | Fully automatic | Through plugins, scripts, machine learning and so on, automatically operating with achieving non-attended | Planning | Summer of 2022 ~ Winter of 2023 |
| Contribution | |
|---|---|
| EvoWebFrance | French translation |
| kvnklk | German translation |
| Lemonawa | Simplified Chinese translation |
| LuxNegra | French translation |
| MosamXu | Simplified Chinese translation |
