Rhino WIP Feature: Command Line UI unification

Off-topic:
What are these “knife” and “balloon” icons used for? :smiley: We need more icons like these!

how can i activate this new feature

This is why it is called a WIP… always accompanied by the caution “not recommended for commercial work”. Things break during development. Plus, the “new” interface possibilities have incorporated into the WIP for quite some time now, a number of threads here on the subject.

Flickering of the window caused by the command bar.
From second 40 onward.

@brvdln it seems the command search bar doesn’t like to be docked when a command is active. If you drag it out, start typing something to make the search bar appear (without starting any command), then drag the command search bar into your layout to dock it, does the flickering stop?

@Gijs problem disappeared

@brvdln thanks for confirming. Logged nonetheless as
RH-95024 Docking search bar while in a command makes it volatile

Version 9 WIP (9.0.26118.12306, 2026-04-28) M5 Air

on Windows, easy to change {Font, size, background colour, etc} for the Command Line.

on Mac, this doesn’t seem to work (unless there’s another way)

Hi Yelen -

That seems to work as expected here:

Just to make sure, could you please post your Rhino SystemInfo data here?
-wim

tried again, and still a no go :sweat_smile:

Rhino 9 SR0 2026-4-28 (Rhino WIP, 9.0.26118.12306, Git hash:master @ f747d8da411cf1d70538fcd21c9bfcf397fe947a)
License type: Educational, build 2026-04-28
License details: Cloud Zoo
Expires on: 2026-06-12

Apple macOS Version 26.4.1 (Build 25E253) (Physical RAM: 24GB)
Mac Model Identifier: Mac17,4
Language: en-US (MacOS default)
.NET 10.0.2

Metal GPU Family Apple 7
Metal GPU Family Common 3
Metal GPU Family Mac 2
Graphics processors
Apple M5
Color LCD (1710 x 1107 @ 60.00Hz)
GPU Vendor: Apple

USB devices
None

Bluetooth devices
None

Third party kernel extensions
None

Third party plugins
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObjectiveC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDarwin.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDispatch.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIOKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSystem.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftXPC.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_Builtin_float.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_Concurrency.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_DarwinFoundation1.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_StringProcessing.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftos.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDistributed.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftObservation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSynchronization.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAccelerate.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreAudio.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMedia.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetal.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftOSLog.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftQuartzCore.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftUniformTypeIdentifiers.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftVideoToolbox.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftsimd.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_DarwinFoundation2.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_DarwinFoundation3.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_RegexParser.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMIDI.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreImage.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCompression.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreLocation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAVFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftRegexBuilder.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftNaturalLanguage.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMLCompute.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSpatial.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreGraphics.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSwiftOnoneSupport.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftsys_time.dylib
/usr/lib/usd/libusd_ms.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswift_errno.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftIntents.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCoreMediaIO.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftCallKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftPassKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftAppleArchive.dylib
/usr/lib/updaters/libAppleTconUARPUpdater.dylib
/usr/lib/updaters/libT200Updater.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftDemangle.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftGLKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMetalKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftModelIO.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSceneKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftExtensionFoundation.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftGameplayKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftSpriteKit.dylib
/usr/lib/swift/libswiftMapKit.dylib

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhMaterialEditor.framework “Renderer Development Kit” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/Commands.rhp “Commands” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/PlugIns/NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RDK_EtoUI.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/MeshCommands.rhp “MeshCommands” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/PlugIns/SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/PlugIns/Displacement.rhp “Displacement” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/PlugIns/PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/PlugIns/SolidTools.rhp “SolidTools” 9.0.26118.1002
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/GrasshopperPlugin.rhp “Grasshopper” 9.0.26118.12306
/Applications/RhinoWIP.app/Contents/Frameworks/RhCore.framework/Resources/ManagedPlugIns/RhinoCodePlugin.rhp “RhinoCodePlugin” 9.0.26118.12306

works now! just had to change Mode to ‘History

thnx!

Hi Yelen -

Thanks, that means it doesn’t work : )
RH-95263 CommandPrompt (Eto): UI Colors not for Search
-wim