iTerm2

A terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.

Date Created:

January 1, 2010

Platform:

macos

Language:

objective-c

Source Code Availability:

Open Source (GPL-2)

Development State:

active

iTerm2 is a replacement for the default Terminal app found on macOS.

It's an open-source terminal emulator that supports many features not available in the standard macOS Terminal, including split panes, search, advanced color schemes, hotkeys, and much more.

Features

GPU Accelerated

Yes

Image Support

Yes

Sixel

Yes

Kitty Graphics

Yes

iTerm2 Images

Yes

True Color (24-bit)

Yes

Font Ligatures

Yes

Tabs

Yes

Split Panes

Yes

OSC 52 Clipboard

Yes

OSC 8 Hyperlinks

Yes

Unicode

Yes

Notifications

Yes

Kitty Keyboard

Yes

Synchronized Output

Yes

Styled Underlines

Yes

Shell Integration

Yes

Drop-down Mode

Yes

Built-in Multiplexer

No

Config Format

gui/plist

How to install iTerm2

iTerm2 is available on macOS only. To install iTerm2, builds can be downloaded on iTerm2's website.

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