Wezterm

Jul 20, 2023

GPU-accelerated terminal emulator and multiplexer

WezTerm is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust.

  • Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows on local and remote hosts, with native mouse and scrollback
  • Ligatures, Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes
  • Hyperlinks
  • Searchable Scrollback use mouse wheel and Shift-PageUp and Shift PageDown to navigate, Ctrl-Shift-F to activate search mode
  • xterm style selection of text with mouse; paste selection via Shift-Insert bracketed paste is supported!
  • SGR style mouse reporting works in vim and tmux
  • Render underline, double-underline, italic, bold, strikethrough most other terminal emulators do not support as many render attributes
  • Configuration via a file with hot reloading
  • Multiple Windows Hotkey Super-N
  • Splits/Panes
  • Tabs Hotkey Super-T, next/prev Super-Shift-[ and Super-Shift-], go-to Super-[1-9]
  • SSH client with native tabs
  • Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work
  • Connect to a local multiplexer server over unix domain sockets
  • Connect to a remote multiplexer using SSH or TLS over TCP/IP
  • iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in imgcat command
  • Sixel graphics support


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