- Color schemes - (Tilix compatible color scheme support)
- Theming - your color scheme can be used to style the whole app
- Background transparency
- Custom fonts, padding, and cell spacing
- Tabs
- Support for drag and dropping files
- Sixel (experimental)
- Customizable keybindings
- Toggle-able header bar
- Search your backlog with text or regex
- Context aware header bar - the header bar changes colors when running commands with sudo and in ssh sessions
- Desktop notifications - get notified when a command is finished in the background
- Customizable UI
Flathub
flatpak install flathub com.raggesilver.BlackBoxFlatpak Nightly
You can also download the most recent build. Note that these are unstable and completely unavailable if the latest pipeline failed.
Looking for an older release?
Check out the releases page.
Flatpak
To build and run Black Box, use GNOME Builder or VS Code along with Vala and Flatpak extensions.
If you want to build Black Box manually, look at the build script in .gitlab-ci.yml.
Black Box is accepting translations through Weblate! If you'd like to contribute with translations, visit the Weblate project.
Some of these screenshot are from older versions of Black Box.
Black Box with "show header bar" off.
Black Box with transparent background* and sixel support. *blur is controled by your compositor.
- Most of Black Box's themes come (straight out copied) from Tilix
- Most non-Tilix-default themes come (straight out copied) from Tilix-Themes
- Thank you, @linuxllama, for QA testing and creating Black Box's app icon
- Thank you, @predvodnik, for coming up with the name "Black Box"
- Source code that derives from other projects is properly attributed in the code itself
