electerm

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electerm

Open-sourced terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client(linux, mac, win).

For experienced developers, you may try the web app version running in browser(including mobile device): electerm-web

Online demo: https://electerm-demo.html5beta.com

Features

• Works as a terminal/file manager or ssh/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/sftp client
• Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2)
• Multi platform(linux, mac, win)
• 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇭🇰 🇯🇵 🇸🇦 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 Multi-language support(electerm-locales, contributions/fixes welcome)
• Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
• Auth with publicKey + password.
• Support Zmodem(rz, sz).
• Support ssh tunnel.
• Support Trzsz(trz/tsz), similar to rz/sz, and compatible with tmux.
• Transparent window(Mac, win).
• Terminal background image.
• Global/session proxy.
• Quick commands
• UI/terminal theme
• Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to github/gitee secret gist
• Quick input to one or all terminals.
• Command line usage: check wiki
• Deep link support: check wiki

Download

• Homepage
• sourceforge
• github releases

Install

• For Mac user: brew install --cask electerm
• With snap: sudo snap install electerm --classic
• For some Linux distribution, you can find it from OS default App store(Ubuntu, Deepin, Mint...).
• For some linux OS, the rpm, deb, or snap release may not work, you can try the tar.gz release.
• For Windows users, you can install it from windows store, command-line installer winget and scoop is also recommended:

# winget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
winget install electerm

# scoop https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop
scoop bucket add dorado https://github.com/chawyehsu/dorado
scoop install dorado/electerm

• Install from npm

npm i -g electerm

# After installation, it will immediately open for windows and linux,
# For macOS, it will open the drag to install panel

Upgrade

• Auto upgrade: When a new version is released, you will get an upgrade notification after you start electerm again. You can then click the upgrade button to upgrade.
• Download: Just download the latest edition, reinstall.
• Npm: If you install from npm, just run npm i -g electerm again.
• If use Snap or some other distribution system, these systems may provide upgrades.

Themes

• https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/tree/master/electerm
• https://github.com/Hope-IT-Works/electerm-theme-termius

Known issues

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Know-issues

Troubleshoot

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Troubleshoot

Discussion

Discussion board

Support

Would love to hear from you, please tell me what you think, submit an issue, Start a new discussion, create/fix language files or create pull requests, all welcome.

Sponsor this project

github sponsor

https://github.com/sponsors/electerm

kofi

https://ko-fi.com/zhaoxudong

wechat donate

Dev

# tested in ubuntu16.04+/mac os 10.13+ only
# needs nodejs/npm, suggest using nvm to install nodejs/npm
# https://github.com/creationix/nvm
# with nodejs 18.x

git clone [e-mail]:electerm/electerm.git
cd electerm
npm i

# start webpack dev server, requires port 5570
npm start

# in a separate terminal session run app
npm run app

# code format check
npm run lint

# code format fix
npm run fix

Test

npm run prepare-build
npm run prepare-test
cp .sample.env .env

# edit .env, fill your test host/username/password, may only works in mac OS
npm run test

Test build

# Tested only in ubuntu 16.04 x64+
# Install yarn first(to do yarn autoclean)
# See https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

# Build linux only with -l
npm i
npm run prepare-build
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux tar.gz
# or replace tar.gz to rpm/deb/AppImage
# check dist/ folder

# build for linux arm/
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux --arm64

Use

• Set autorun when login to os

Change log

Visit Releases.

License

MIT