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electerm – terminal emulator and much more

In Operation

At the heart of electerm is a capable terminal emulator. There’s lots of customization available including a wide range of themes. There’s some graphics frippery not to our taste.

electerm

The left hand side hosts a vertical icon bar which offers a menu, new bookmark, history, terminal themes, settings, settings sync, and BatchOp.

Most terminal emulators don’t offer a UI for file management. electerm isn’t like a regular terminal emulator though.

electerm file management

A great array of services are available including ssh, telnet, serial, web, RDP, and VNC with a handy bookmark manager to help automate connections.

What else does electerm offer?

  • Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2).
  • Built-in editor. Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
  • Global/session proxy.
  • Authentication with publicKey and password.
  • Quick commands.
  • Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to github/gitee secret gist.
  • Auto updating.
  • Internationalization support.

Summary

electerm is a swiss-army type of terminal emulator which has a modern UI. It’s lacking some panache in some areas.

With a bit more spit and polish, electerm could rival the finest terminal emulators.

The project has amassed more than 10k GitHub stars.

Website: electerm.html5beta.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: ZHAO Xudong
License: MIT License

electerm is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – In Operation and Summary

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