Aminal is a modern terminal emulator implemented in Golang and utilising OpenGL. Whilst the basic functionality is in place, we're not yet at the stage to make a public release. Feel free to build and play with it though!
The project is experimental at the moment, so you probably won't want to rely on Aminal as your main terminal for a while.
Ensure you have your latest graphics card drivers installed before use.
Sixels are now supported.
- Unicode support
- OpenGL rendering
- Full customisation options
- True colour support
- Support for commmon ANSI escape sequences a la xterm
- Scrollback buffer
- Clipboard access
- Clickable URLs
- Resize logic that wraps/unwraps lines correctly
- Bullshit graphical effects
- Multi platform support
- Sixel support
- Suspend/Continue (^S, ^Q). This is archaic bullshit that annoys more people than it helps. Basically:
| Platform | Supported |
|---|---|
| Linux | ✔ |
| MacOSX | ⏳ |
| Windows | ⏳ |
- Go 1.10.3+
- On macOS, you need Xcode or Command Line Tools for Xcode (
xcode-select --install) for required headers and libraries. - On Ubuntu/Debian-like Linux distributions, you need
libgl1-mesa-dev xorg-dev. - On CentOS/Fedora-like Linux distributions, you need
libX11-devel libXcursor-devel libXrandr-devel libXinerama-devel mesa-libGL-devel libXi-devel.
| Operation | Key(s) |
|---|---|
| Copy | ctrl + shift + c |
| Paste | ctrl + shift + v |
| Toggle slomo | ctrl + shift + ; |
| Interrupt (SIGINT) | ctrl + c |
Aminal looks for a config file in ~/.aminal.toml, and will write one there the first time it runs, if it doesn't already exist.
You can ignore the config and use defaults by specifying --ignore-config as a CLI flag.
| CLI Flag | Config Section | Config Name | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| --debug | root | debug | boolean | false | Enable debug mode, with debug logging and debug info terminal overlay. |
| --slomo | root | slomo | boolean | false | Enable slomo mode, delay the handling of each incoming byte (or escape sequence) from the pty by 100ms. Useful for debugging. |
| --shell [shell] | root | shell | string | User's shell | Use the specified shell program instead of the user's usual one. |