The swiss army chainsaw of terminal emulators

Main website: extraterm.org

About

Extraterm is an open source project to build a terminal emulator and expand it with new features to support modern workflows and do more than just act like a glorified teletype.

See the Features and Screenshots

The primary developer is Simon Edwards. Extraterm logos were designed and provided by Gabriel Harel.

Features

• Supports Linux and macOS, and on Windows WSL, CMD, and PowerShell
• Built in SSH client
• Images in terminal
• Mini-map
• 24 bit color
• Color emoji on all platforms
• Font ligatures
• Keyboard friendly "Command Palette"
• Output colorizing
• Multiple windows and tiling
• Configurable key bindings
• Easily insert Emoji
• Search
• Unicode support
• Text zoom
• Global shortcuts
• Shell integration; can isolate and 'frame' command output. (bash, zsh and fish supported)
• Easy uploads and downloads using the shell integration
• Previous command output can be used as input for new commands
• Supports iTerm2 themes
• MIT license

See the more detailed features list.

News

News is here

Download

• Modern Qt based version (version 0.60.0 and later)
• Classic Electron based version (versions before 0.60.0). It is pretty old.

Both can be installed at the same time without problems.

Nightly builds of the master branch can be downloaded here.

Further Information

• 📢 Follow development on Bluesky extratermdev.bsky.social
• User Guide
• Downloads and Releases (Linux, Windows and OS X supported)
• Extending Extraterm with Extensions
• FAQ
• Development and Contributing
• Current Development Roadmap
• Github: https://github.com/sedwards2009/extraterm