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And there is some strange behaviour with the keys. Actually using LXSS become far lees powerfull to the users of Conemu thanks to this. Vim and NeoVim does weird things with the arrows, on mc I can't navigate on the filesytem with the cursors, and htop does weird things.

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I suspect that might be conemu, and compatibility thereof. Specifically, running the bog-standard bash prompt (with conhost.exe) makes this a no-repro; all keys / arrows works in MC & htop

Unfortunately, it appears to be a design problem on the Microsoft side: https://github.com/Microsoft/BashOnWindows/issues/111#issuec...

you can get ubuntu bash into ConEmu with just:

-new_console bash ~

Or, with current stable (160724), install "Bash on Ubuntu On Windows" (ugh), then in ConEmu, open the Tasks section in Settings and click "Add default tasks...", then Yes.

You may want to add the tilde to the path, as it seems to open to /mnt/c/Users/<username>/. Also, I think it still messes with the keys, but not always. They seem to work fine right after starting it.

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