Terminus – highly configurable terminal heavily inspired by Hyper

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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