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Frequenly asked user questions about ConEmu usage.

Disclaimer Please note, that this document has been written for a long period, and some answers may be obsolete. If you find any Q/A, which differs from other parts of documentation or the actual program behavior, please let us know via ‘Suggest better edit’ link at the bottom of the page.

• General
  • Q. I found a bug, what should I do?
  • Q. What about ConMan , alternative console, etc.?
  • Q. What is the purpose of ConEmu .cer (digital certificate)?
  • Q. How to import the certificate to the list of trusted root certificates?
  • Q. What is an Apps key?
  • Q. What is a Host key?
  • Q. Not all characters (hieroglyphs, ellipses, copyright symbols etc.) are displayed
  • Q. Is it possible to run a GUI application in a ConEmu tab?
  • Q. How to launch an application in a new ConEmu tab?
  • Q. How to use the ‘-new_console’ parameter?
  • Q. Which environment variables does ConEmu set?
  • Q. Launched console program outputs nothing.
  • Q. A program does not work in «Long console output» mode.
• Distribution package
  • Q. What is the purpose of ConEmuSetup.*.exe?
  • Q. What is the purpose of ConEmuC.exe (ConEmuC64.exe)?
  • Q. What is the purpose of the Far plugin ConEmu.dll (ConEmu.x64.dll)?
  • Q. What is the purpose of ConEmuHk.dll (ConEmuHk64.dll)?
  • Q. What is the purpose of ExtendedConsole.dll (ExtendedConsole64.dll)?
• Portable version
  • Q. Can ConEmu be portable?
  • Q. When attempting to use ConEmu.xml, the error message ‘XML setting file can not be used!’ appears
  • Q. Can ConEmu make launched applications portable?
• Updates
  • Q. Can ConEmu update automatically?
  • Q. What are the capabilities of the automatic updater?
• x64 issues
  • Q. What is the purpose of the files ConEmuC.exe, ConEmuCD.dll and ConEmuHk .dll in 64-bit OS?
  • Q. What is the purpose of the files ConEmuC64 .exe, ConEmuCD64.dll and ConEmuHk64 .dll in the 32-bit version of ConEmu ?
  • Q. After running the commands start, echo (and other cmd.exe commands) on 64-bit systems, an error similar to “File not found. Cannot execute. start” appears
  • Q. Attempts to launch applications (from Far Manager) causes a system error such as: «Error launching application (0xc0000142). Click “OK” to exit.»
  • Q. What is going on with environment variables in 64-bit OS?
• Configuration
  • Q. Is it possible to set up ConEmu to open multiple tabs on startup (e.g. Far, CMD, PowerShell)?
  • Q. Duplicate Far Manager windows
  • Q. How to configure a bitmap font?
  • Q. Why are horizontal lines (drawn using box drawing characters) discontinuous?
  • Q. How to start several consoles in 2x2 grid
  • Q. How do you configure ConEmu to run cmd.exe as an Administrator from an Explorer integration?
  • Q. How do I give each tab opened by a {Task} a custom name?
  • Q. How to set up Git Bash Here in ConEmu ?
  • Q. How to export ConEmu settings?
  • Q. How to attach a running console application to a new ConEmu instance?
  • Q. How to delete items from the «Create new console» dropdown?
• Far Manager
  • Q. Why don’t tabs work?
  • Q. Why doesn’t Drag-n-Drop (plugin) work?
  • Q. How to close a tab (viewer/editor/Far) with the mouse?
  • Q. Mouse events (clicks, wheel) are not sent to Far
  • Q. Why doesn’t the FarHints plugin work?
  • Q. At some point, tabs / Drag-n-Drop / etc. stopped working
  • Q. Right mouse clicks do not invoke the file/folder context menu.
  • Q. Right mouse clicks invoke a graphical context menu, whereas a text one is desired.
• Windows Vista
  • Q. The key combination Ctrl-Win-Alt-Space does not show the RealConsole .
  • Q. Other console processes hang in Windows Vista.
• Abnormal termination
  • Q. Upon exiting from a console program, an error such as the following appears: Access violation at address 6F78DE5B in module ‘ ConEmuHk .dll’. Read of address 0071004E
  • Q. ConEmu or console application hangs on exit
  • Q. How to create a minidump
  • Q. Where can I find Process ID (PID)
  • Q. How to run Task Manager
  • Q. ConEmuC: CreateFile (CONOUT$) failed, ErrCode =0x00000005
• Unsorted
  • Q. How to minimize ConEmu to the system tray (as an icon near the Windows clock on the taskbar)?
  • Q. Why does ConEmu change the font of the real console?
  • Q. The console appears in part, shifted, or not at all
  • Q. Why does the quick search window disappear when the input language is changed?
  • Q. Why are there no multiconsole buttons on the toolbar?
  • Q. ConEmu hangs (title bar contains ‘…Waiting for result (10 sec)’) and after some time, the plugin menu appears (or some other plugin is called)
  • Q. Why does the ‘Background image’ not show up?
  • Q. What is the purpose of the ‘Press Enter to close console…’ confirmation displayed after all commands finished executing?
  • Q. How to disable ‘Press Enter to close console…’?
  • Q. FAR is the root process, the plugin is installed, yet ‘Press Enter to close console…’ still appears
  • Q. Why does Shift-Enter in panels launch console programs in new standard console windows, as opposed to new ConEmu tabs?
  • Q. Why is the cursor displayed as a rectangle instead of the usual?
  • Q. Text in tab captions is displayed with squares (instead of hieroglyphs).
  • Q. GoldenDict translation pop-ups do not work in ConEmu