One terminal for every desktop

What's new

The highlights of 0.10.0 and the releases just before it. See the changelog for everything.

• Termina 0.10.0 : Out for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows (x64) and Linux (x64 and ARM64), each installer with its own Java runtime.
• Icons in Settings : Each page of the settings sidebar has a glyph, muted at rest and in the accent colour when its page is open.
• Editora's command palette : Since 0.9.0: the same matcher and ranking, Emacs keys to drive it, Alt+X to open it, and the chord is a setting.
• The menu bar in the title bar : Since 0.8.0: one row for the menus, the title and the window buttons, on Linux and Windows.
• Tabs that remember : Since 0.8.0: rename a tab, reopen one you closed, duplicate one where it is, and see a dot when a background tab has news.
• A paste that asks : Since 0.8.0: a paste with a line break shows what it will send first, and control characters are stripped from every paste.

In development

Working in the repository and headed for the next release, but not in 0.10.0:

• Split panes : Another shell beside or below the one you are in, in the same directory.
• Find in the scrollback : Every match highlighted as you type, smart case, regular expressions.
• Shell integration : Jump between prompts, select the last command's output, and a mark beside a command that failed (OSC 133).
• Every shortcut rebindable : A Keyboard page in Settings, and the bindings synced between computers through a Git repository of yours.
• What programs ask for : Declared links (OSC 8), copying to the clipboard over SSH (OSC 52), and type-ahead on a slow SSH link.
• Icons without a Nerd Font : Symbols Nerd Font Mono bundled, so eza --icons draws right on any machine.

Features

The terminal

A real shell

Your own shell on a real pseudo-terminal: forkpty on macOS and Linux, ConPTY on Windows. Started as a login shell, so PATH is what it is everywhere else.

xterm compatibility

Emulation by JetBrains' JediTerm, so vim, htop and less behave: mouse reporting in all four wire formats, application cursor keys, 256 colors and 24-bit color, and double-width characters.

Clickable links and paths

Ctrl-click (Cmd-click on macOS) opens a URL in the browser, or a file path in your editor, at the line from a Foo.java:42:7. A path is a link only if the file exists.

Selection and safe paste

Drag, double-click for a word, triple-click for a line, and Shift to select inside a program that owns the mouse. A paste with a line break shows you what it will run first.

Bundled fonts

Five monospace families ship inside the app, with JetBrains Mono the default, and Inter for the interface, so a terminal looks the same on every machine. Zoom is separate from the size you chose.

Tabs & windows

Tabs

Tabs that tile the window, hide when there is only one, and can be dragged, renamed, duplicated and reopened. A dot says when something happened in a tab you are not looking at.

Shell profiles

Every shell the machine has, found rather than configured: zsh, bash, fish and the rest on macOS and Linux; PowerShell, Command Prompt, Git Bash and each WSL distribution on Windows. Ctrl+Shift+1…9 open them.

Titles that say where you are

Tabs and the title bar show the shell's directory, read from the operating system rather than from your prompt, and the program running. A new tab opens where the current one is.

The menu bar in the title bar

One row for the menus, the window title and the window buttons, so the terminal gains a line. Or hide the menu bar with Ctrl+Shift+M. On macOS the menus are in the screen menu bar.

Zoom and full screen

Zoom as a browser does it: one row reading − 110% + in the View and right-click menus, Firefox's steps from 30% to 300%, and Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0. Full screen on F11.

Keyboard

Command palette

Every command, open tab, shell profile and theme, found by typing part of its name: Alt+X, as Emacs's M-x. Each row shows its chord, so the palette teaches the keys as you use it.

Keyboard shortcuts

Application chords that leave the shell its keys: Ctrl+Shift+T on Linux and Windows, Cmd+T on macOS. Help → Keyboard Shortcuts lists every one of them, searchable.

Keys that reach the shell

A Meta key that works, Option on macOS included, AltGr left alone for the layouts that need it, and the scrollback and paste keys a Linux hand reaches for.

Make it yours

Themes and fonts

Editora Dark and Light, and macOS Terminal's Clear Dark and Clear Light decoded from Apple's own profiles. Five bundled monospace fonts, so the terminal looks the same on every platform.

Settings that apply live

A Settings window with no OK button: every control applies as it changes. A search box over every row, and a plain settings.properties you can edit by hand.

Six languages

English, Italiano, Español, Français, Português and Deutsch, or whatever the operating system speaks.

Keys that stay out of the way

Each chord is declared once, on the command, so the menus, the palette and the shortcut reference can never disagree. A few to start with:

• Command Palette… Alt+X
• New Tab Ctrl+Shift+T
• Close Tab Ctrl+Shift+W
• Reopen Closed Tab Ctrl+Shift+Z
• Copy Ctrl+Shift+C
• Paste Ctrl+Shift+V
• Next Tab Ctrl+Shift+]
• Go to Tab 1–9 (9 is the last) Alt+1…9
• Zoom In Ctrl+=
• Full Screen F11
• Settings… Ctrl+,
• Keyboard Shortcuts… Ctrl+Shift+/

All 27 commands and their keys →

Download

Native installers for macOS, Windows and Linux are attached to each release. Each bundles its own Java runtime, so there is nothing else to install.

On Linux, install with sudo apt install ./Termina-*.deb or sudo dnf install ./Termina-*.rpm. The package adds Termina to the application menu as a terminal emulator.

Installers are currently unsigned. On macOS the first launch is blocked: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. On Windows, if SmartScreen appears, choose More info → Run anyway. Each release lists SHA-256 checksums.

Build & run from source

Requires JDK 25. A Maven wrapper is bundled, so no local Maven install is needed.

# Clone
git clone https://github.com/adriandeleon/Termina.git
cd Termina

# Run the app
./mvnw javafx:run

# Tests, the formatter check and the coverage floors
./mvnw verify

# A self-contained app image in target/dist (clean is required)
./mvnw clean -Pdist -DskipTests package

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