Terminal features

What it does

Every StreamView pane is a real Windows terminal built on ConPTY — the same pseudo-console Windows Terminal uses — so anything that runs in a console runs here, with full ANSI color and interactivity.

How to use it

Supported shells

• PowerShell — Windows PowerShell and PowerShell 7+
• Command Prompt — classic Windows CMD
• WSL — Windows Subsystem for Linux distributions
• Git Bash — Git for Windows bash shell
• Custom — any executable with command-line arguments

Windows Terminal integration

StreamView automatically detects every profile configured in Windows Terminal. They appear under + Add Stream (Ctrl+N), not on the Welcome screen — Welcome stays Claude / Cursor / Grok plus the three common shells. Paths and working directories come from Windows Terminal.

Catch-up pill

When you leave a pane (another tab, another pane, or another app) StreamView marks that point. If a lot of output arrives while you're away, coming back shows a pill: N new lines · click to read from here. It does not auto-scroll — you still land on the live tail so you can see whether the process is waiting on you.

• Ordinary shells: click jumps the viewport to the first new line.
• Full-screen apps (Claude Code, vim, Grok): click opens a catch-up panel of the new text. Those apps own their own scroll; StreamView has no local buffer to jump.

Shift+End, or the same pill once you're scrolled up, returns to live output.

ANSI color support

• 16 standard colors
• 256 extended colors
• 24-bit true color (RGB)
• Bold, italic, underline, and other text styles

Troubleshooting

• Colors look wrong or output is garbled — confirm the program emits standard ANSI/VT sequences; very old console apps that write directly to the console API may render differently.
• A shell isn't found — verify the executable is on your PATH, or use a full path in the stream's command. See Troubleshooting.

Related

• Managing streams
• Tail file mode