Terminal Lite
Experimental cross-platform terminal emulator application written in Flutter.
Screenshots
Windows | Linux | MacOS |
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Prebuilt binaries
Prebuilt binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and MacOS on the releases page.
Build
Flutter 1.22.0+ is recommended to build Terminal Lite.
Make sure Flutter desktop support is enabled:
flutter channel dev
// or flutter channel master
flutter config --enable-windows-desktop
flutter config --enable-macos-desktop
flutter config --enable-linux-desktop
Fetch dependencies and build:
flutter pub get
flutter pub upgrade
flutter run --release
For the underlying backend-agnostic terminal emulator widget, see xterm.dart.
Windows build may fail when using flutter 1.23.0+, to resolve this issue, delete the
windows
folder then runflutter create .
, or simplygit checkout flutter_1.23.0
Known issues
- Pty may not work in debug mode.
- Some special characters may not render in MacOS, maybe caused by fontFamilyFallback?
- When multiple tabs are opened, focus may not move between those tabs correctly.
Features and bugs
Please file feature requests and bugs at the issue tracker.
Contributions are always welcome!