Contents
Frequenly asked user questions about ConEmu usage.
- General
- Distribution package
- Portable version
- Updates
- x64 issues
- Configuration
- ConEmu automation
- Far Manager
- Windows Vista
- Abnormal termination
- Unsorted
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 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
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. How run cmd file to initialize the environment (cmd prompt)?
- Q. How to let Shift-Home select prompt text to the start of command?
- 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?
ConEmu automation
Far Manager
- Q. Ctrl+Number doesn’t switch panel modes.
- 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
