Terminology

A rich media terminal emulator with inline images and video support.

Date Created:

February 27, 2013

Platforms:

linuxbsd

Language:

c

Source Code Availability:

Open Source (BSD 2-Clause)

Development State:

active

Terminology is an EFL terminal emulator for Linux, BSD, and UNIX that stays close to xterm while adding richer graphical features.

It supports inline images and video, local file previews, clickable paths and URLs, tabs, split panes, themes, and optional OpenGL rendering. Scrollback stays in RAM and is compressed on the fly.

It also includes themes, color controls, RAM based scrollback, and optional OpenGL rendering.

Features

GPU Accelerated

Yes

Image Support

Yes

Sixel

No

Kitty Graphics

No

iTerm2 Images

No

True Color (24-bit)

Yes

Font Ligatures

No

Tabs

Yes

Split Panes

Yes

OSC 52 Clipboard

Yes

OSC 8 Hyperlinks

Yes

Unicode

Yes

Notifications

Yes

Kitty Keyboard

No

Synchronized Output

No

Styled Underlines

No

Shell Integration

No

Drop-down Mode

No

Built-in Multiplexer

No

Config Format

gui

How to install Terminology

See the official Terminology page for project details, or browse the source at GitHub.

To build from source, install the required EFL dependencies, then run meson build, ninja -C build, and sudo ninja -C build install from the project root.

The official docs also link to the download page if you want a packaged release instead of compiling it yourself.

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