Last Updated on July 13, 2021
Terminus is an open source terminal emulator designed for a modern age.
Terminus is an Electron app, with the frontend written in Typescript with the assistance of Angular framework. The software is built using webpack, a static module bundler for modern JavaScript applications.
The software is in an early stage of development. It has a good range of features.
Features include:
- Theming and color schemes. Multiple app themes and a myriad of community color schemes for the terminal. Color scheme editor included.
- Spawn and hide with a global hotkey.
- Fully configurable shortcuts.
- Auto-dock to any side of any screen.
- Good performance for flowing outputs (e.g. logs or outputting a large file with the cat command).
- Drag in a file to paste the path.
- Tabs with option of showing them at the top or the bottom.
- Tab persistence on macOS and Linux. Select between GNU Screen and Tmux persistence providers.
- Keeps the current directory in new tabs.
- Click paths and URLs to open in browser/file manager.
- Plugins from the NPM repository, or create your own with Typescript and Angular framework.
- SSH connection manager.
- Window frame: Native, thin, or full.
- Dock the terminal to the top, left, right, bottom, or turn it off.
- Configurable hotkeys support.
- Plugins adds additional functionality to the software. Terminus ships with the following plugins:
- plugin-manager – manage all your Terminus plugins.
- settings – Terminus terminal setting page.
- ssh – SSH connection manager for Terminus.
- terminal – Terminus’ terminal emulation core.
- Other plugins are available.
- Proper shell-like experience on Windows including tab completion (via Clink).
- Fullscreen mode.
- Interactive logon with Git-Bash.
- CMD, PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Cygwin, Cmder, Git-Bash and WSL (Bash on Windows) support.
- Full Unicode support including double-width characters.
- Emojis.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/Eugeny/tabby
Support: GitHub code repository
Developer: Eugene Pankov
License: MIT License
Terminus is written in TypeScript. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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