Bobcat is a modern, feature-rich terminal emulator that works across all major operating systems. It's built using the U++ framework and TerminalCtrl widget to create a powerful yet user-friendly command-line experience.
For complete VT feature details, see TerminalCtrl's features list and technical specs document.
- Runs smoothly on Linux, Windows, MacOS, and BSD systems
- Very high compatibility with VT (DEC/ANSI) and xterm standards
- Displays images right in your terminal: Supports both classic Sixel and modern formats (PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF)
- Smart shell integration that tracks your working directory
- Powerful text selection and manipulation tools
- Clickable hyperlinks and advanced clipboard handling
- Support for emojis and rich text annotations
- Full mouse support across all protocols
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Vibrant color support (16, 256, and 24-bit colors)
- Finder: Advanced search engine with regular expression support and data extraction to CSV
- Linkifier: Turn any text into clickable links using custom patterns
- Smart Text Selection: Define your own selection patterns
- QuickText: Easy access to frequently used commands and text
- Create multiple profiles for different tasks
- Choose between minimal and full-featured interfaces
- Stack-based design with easy terminal management
- Simple JSON configuration with immediate settings updates
- Supports both ConPty and WinPty
- No external environment dependencies required
- Web support: Access your terminal through any modern browser
- Headless UI: Run on minimal systems using SDL2-GL
And yes, it can run Doom! 🎮
Bobcat has minimal requirements. You'll need:
- CLANG/GCC (C++17 or later)
- U++ framework
- TerminalCtrl
- StackCtrl
- MessageCtrl
You can install Bobcat in three ways:
- Available through UppHub, U++'s package manager
- Requires TheIDE (U++'s development environment)
- Windows: Included in U++ installer
- Linux: Available via Flathub or manual build
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Uses pre-compiled umk (U++ make) for faster builds:
make downloadmake buildormake build-webormake build-headlessmake run
- Clone or download the repository and set up as a U++ assembly/nest. See the U++ documentation for details.
- Macro infrastructure, based on Upp::Esc scripting language.
- A "lite" plugin framework.
Below you can find a handful of screenshots of Bobcat, running on Linux & Windows.
Bobcat on Linux
Bobcat on Windows
Bobcat, running zellij, with a background image of well..., a bobcat!
Bobcat, running yazi, in borderless mode on Linux.
Bobcat, running yazi with image preview feature on Windows
Bobcat, running Neovim on Windows
Multiple terminal profile support (linux, btop)
Inline images support (linux, jexer)
Navigator (linux)
Finder, in regex-based search mode (linux)
Harvester, harvesting 124660 URLs from the buffer, and mapping them into a csv file (linux)
Settings windows (linux)
Far manager running on Bobcat (Windows 10)
Bobcat deployed as a simple web server with access from web browsers (Linux)
Bobcat deployed as a simple web server with access from web browsers (Windows)
Bobcat running "headless" on SDL2 (GL) backend (Linux)
Doom, running on Bobcat, via mochadoom (Linux)
A very short demonstration of Bobcat, running DOOM!
A very short demonstration of finder/harvester and unicode character (emoji) input.
To be written...
Copyright (c) 2023-2025, İsmail Yılmaz
Bobcat is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Bobcat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bobcat. If not, see gnu licenses