Cmder: Turn every cmd to cmder

[tomasfejfar]

I was not able to make this work. I managed to autoattach every CMD to cmder (i.e. start > run > "cmd" results in new tab). But the new tab does not look like cmder - it's normal CMD. Also "Open ConEmu Here" context menu item opens plain conemu and not cmder (ugly colors, fonts, etc.)

Is there a way to turn all of those to cmder tabs?

[sc0tt]

You don't want to enable the shell integration from the cmder settings, because that will result in what you're experiencing with it opening a ConEmu window isntead of a Cmder window.

You can do the following to register Cmder shell extensions:
Cmder.exe /REGISTER [ALL|USER]

This will open a new window when using it though, it would be neat to be able to have it open in a new tab.

See the launcher for more details:
https://github.com/bliker/cmder/blob/master/launcher/src/CmderLauncher.cpp

[tomasfejfar]

Actually that does not work:

The syntax of the command is incorrect.


Current directory:
C:\Programs\cmder\vendor\conemu-maximus5\ConEmu

Command to be executed:
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" /C <Startup>


ConEmuC: Root process was alive less than 10 sec, ExitCode=1.
Press Enter or Esc to close console...

But it did open as a tab (i have "only one instance" checked)

[tomasfejfar]

Is there any way to debug this?

[tomasfejfar]

There are also some random "System can't find the path specified" errors (like when i do "restart as admin" when in injected cmd) but the cmd itself is admin and works - just the theme is missing

[tomasfejfar]

Any update?

[tomasfejfar]

cc @techi602

[Decad]

I am Experiencing the same thing, running Cmder.exe /REGISTER ALL seems to have no effect?

[vip32]

does not seem to work, no entries are added to context menu on win8

[SkoricIT]

I just tried and it does work. But you need to run it from an elevated prompt.

[tomasfejfar]

I tried it with no success. I run elevated Administrator cmd, from there i called C:\Programs\cmder>Cmder.exe /REGISTER USER then when I do "Win+R -> cmd" i get normal cmd shell and it's not attached to current cmder.

[SkoricIT]

You don't understand the REGISTER command.
It registers a folder background shell execute command.

Like this:

That is all it does. But it DOES work.
@vip32 said no reg entries are added.
They are indeed added.

Not all people here are talking about the same thing.

Win+R "cmd" will never execute cmder because that is just not how it works. It's like executing "ping 192.168.0.1" when I type "cmd". As far as i know you can not alias over windows built-in binaries like that. Please, correct me if I am wrong.

[Jackbennett]

Just put the cmder folder in your user environment path and win + R cmder instead. That's as close as you can do, don't rename cmd.exe bath things almost certainly will happen.

You could set conemu to show/hide on something like ctrl + # and execute cmder minimised on startup.

[ArmorDarks]

Author probably means Integration -> Defatult term -> Force ConEmu as default terminal for console applications

Currently that checkbox will set as Default term ConEmu itself (from cmder\vendor\conemu-maximus5) which will launch with it's own settings, while it should set as Default term Cmder.exe from cmder\

[tomasfejfar]

Exactly. Thanks for the clarification. @ArmorDarks

[marcoscssno]

@tomasfejfar You can launch cmder from "Run" by setting it up like this:

1. In run, type sysdm.cpl ,3
2. Click on "Environment Variables"
3. In "User Variables", edit your "PATH" variable
4. In the end of your "PATH"'s value, add a ; + the path of the cmder's folder. Ex.: %PROGRAMFILES%\nodejs*;C:\cmder_mini*

You're now set up, just type cmder in run.

[tomasfejfar]

@marcoscssno not exactly - this won't open "new" cmder tab.

• run -> cmder
• cmder window opens
• run -> cmd
• cd c:\temp
• cmder
• expected: new cmder tab opened in c:\temp
• actual: existing cmder window brought to foreground

[luscas]

@ArmorDarks thanks bro!

[BrenBarn]

Isn't it kind of absurd that opening Cmder and using it to register its own context menu actually registers a different program (ConEmu)? Why doesn't Cmder override the ConEmu settings so it registers itself and not ConEmu?