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I have a machine which has Win10 installed, along with Cygwin, whose terminal I use (mintty). Also, I use that machine for long SSH sessions to other machines, in parallel with work on the machine itself.

I would like to be able to hold all of these shell sessions in a single application, as tabs (or in some other relevant arrangement), and in a way which would make it relatively easy for me tell them apart. It is thus important to me to be able to set some or all of the following:

  • Tab header background color
  • Tab header foreground color
  • Tab title (or title prefix etc.)
  • Tab header font weight / color
  • Terminal colors
  • Terminal font and font size

... for individual tabs (or categories of tabs).

It's essential that this happen for local shell sessions (with Cygwin's bash) - not just remote connections. In fact, just local sessions is already ok - like terminal multiplexers on Unix machines, since you can ssh from that terminal. Support for Windows Powershell and/or regular command shell is also important, though less critical.

This question is related to, but not the same as, this one.

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ConEmu might fit the bill. It claims to support both WinAPI console programs as well as Unix-style pty programs - which should include the Cygwin shell.

Screenshot:

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It has some capability of differentiating the console windows from each other:

  • Tab titles can be set arbitrarily.
  • A tab can get a background logo set.
  • Terminal colors can be set to one of multiple palettes; and the palettes can e edited by you.

there are possibly other "customization points" - may not have found them all yet.

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