DomTerm is an open source terminal emulator, screen multiplexer and REPL console using web technologies (JavaScript and DOM).
Users can type commands which gets sent to an application, which evaluates the command, and displays the results, typically in some kind of type-script format.
We’d love to packages available for more Linux distributions than only Fedora.
Supports:
- qtdomterm, which uses the Qt toolkit and QtWebEngine.
- Electron framework which offers a nicer DomTerm front-end than a regular web browser.
- atom-domterm runs DomTerm as a package in the Atom text editor (which is also based on Electron) and integrates with the Atom pane system.
- A wrapper for JavaFX’s WebEngine, which is useful for code written in Java.
Key Features
- Full-featured terminal emulator using the embedded JavaFX WebEngine browser.
- xterm compatibility. It handles mouse events, 24-bit color, Unicode, double-width (CJK) characters, and input methods.
- Uses a browser engine as a “GUI toolkit”, offering embeddable graphics and links, HTML rich text, and foldable (show/hide) commands.
- Support for session management and sub-windows (tmux and GNU screen), basic input editing (readline), and paging (less).
- Tabs and tiling.
- Detach and reattach to sessions.
- domterm command offers multiple options for controlling or starting a server that manages one or more sessions.
- Mouse support using xterm protocols.
- Save the console file as an offline-readable (x)html-file.
- Pretty-printing (Common Lisp style) is supported. This offers automatic re-flow when resizing a window. It uses special commands to group logical blocks, and attempts to keep the text of a block on a single line with automatic re-flow on window re-size.
- Back-end that displays images, graphics, and rich text.
- Optional input editing. In character mode, each character is sent to the application, like a traditional terminal. In line mode, the browser does the editing, and sends the input line to the back-end when Enter is typed. A history of previous lines is available, accessible with the Up/Down arrow keys. Automatic mode switches between character mode and line mode depending on whether the back-end is in “canonical mode”.
- Built-in pager.
- Smart line-wrapping.
- Supported on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Website: domterm.org
Support: GitHub code repository
Developer: Per Bothner
License: 3-clause BSD license
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