Cmder with FluentTerminal (Acrylic Effect)

[DRSDavidSoft]

Cmder with the Acrylic Terminal Effect

This is made possible by running Cmder inside FluentTerminal instead of ConEmu.

Guide

• https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Seamless-FluentTerminal-Integration

Related

• Support Windows 10 Fluent design (Acrylic effect) #1778
• Possible to blur translucent console? #267

External

• How to integrate with cmder? felixse/FluentTerminal#148

Help & Issues

Please comment possible problems on this issue.

[ericcornelissen]

Thanks for this @DRSDavidSoft! It works almost perfectly, the only thing is that I had some issues with the Arguments, namely if %CMDER_ROOT% contains spaces it will complain that there is no command. Therefor I suggest updating the guide to use quotes (as seen ⬇️), which shouldn't harm anyone using a path without spaces.

/k title Cmder & "%CMDER_ROOT%\vendor\init.bat"

[DRSDavidSoft]

👌 Thank you for the observation @ericcornelissen, I updated the wiki!
(The wiki is open to editing for anyone, so you can go ahead and edit it in the future if you see fit!)

[SayidHosseini]

@DRSDavidSoft, I wanna install agnoster on zsh. Do I need CMDER or should I start somewhere else?

[DRSDavidSoft]

@SayidHosseini

Generally speaking, zsh binaries on Windows work without needing Cmder.

The Cmder package just contains ConEmu terminal emulator, plus Clink shell and some additional batch scripts. zsh doesn't require nor interact with Clink and/or any batch scripts at all, so you won't need those to run zsh.

The ConEmu terminal within Cmder can be used to run zsh -- but seeing that you have commented on this issue, I'd say that you are looking to run zsh on FluentTerminal, not ConEmu. If that's the case, you will not need Cmder at all to run zsh.

In any case, zsh will require an installation of either WSL, git-for-windows/msys2, or Cygwin to run. Do you have any of those?

Cheers! ✌️

[infragandhi]

Hi!

I followed the instructions point by point, but I keep getting this launching Fluent Terminal in cmd: 'The system cannot find the path specified.'

Launching in Powershell: :
'The module '[CMDER_ROOT]' could not be loaded. For more information, run 'Import-Module [CMDER_ROOT]'.
At line:1 char:3

• . '[CMDER_ROOT]\vendor\profile.ps1'

• + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: ([CMDER_ROOT]\vendor\profile.ps1:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CouldNotAutoLoadModule'
  
  

I setup the environment variable as the instructions told:

Can you help me out with this?
Thanks!

[DRSDavidSoft]

@ntamas9503 Hey there, the [CMDER_ROOT] is actually the place holder for the Cmder path.

Please replace it like this:

[CMDER_ROOT] → %CMDER_ROOT%

and it should work!

[infragandhi]

Yeah, it worked with specifying the full path. Thanks for your help!

[Bilibili-toast]

Hello author, I have set everything up in FluentTerminal, but the acrylic effect is not achieved.

[DRSDavidSoft]

@Bilibili-toast Hi there, please check if other fluent/metro UI/store apps have the same issue.

If the problem only exists in FluentTerminal, please create a new issue here:
https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal/issues

Also, please checkout our guide to use WindowsTerminal with Cmder, which also has the acrylic effect (blurred behind):
https://github.com/cmderdev/cmder/wiki/Seamless-Windows-Terminal-Integration