bterm

Overview

Fully customisable cross-platform terminal. Runs everywhere. MacOS, Linux or Windows.

Download

To download visit http://bterm.bleenco.io click the right installer depending on operating system you use.

On initial run ~/.bterm.json configuration file is created. If you need fix your font for example, check this file and update your configuration to fit your needs.

Configuration

When installation is successfully completed and you first run bterm you end up with black and white window. But as mentioned bterm is completely customizable.

Click the settings icon bottom right corner.
Click the first tab and you can choose the color theme that you like from the list
On second tab you can select font that you prefer.
On third select the hot key to open urls inside bterm

When you selected your settings open .bterm.json file for further configuration.

bterm settings preview

On Linux or MacOS the .bterm.json is located in ~/.bterm.json. On Windows you can find it inside C:\Users\user\.bterm.json.

Inside .bterm.json, you can easily change font size, font color and other colors using standard html color codes.

bterm window preview

As you can see from the picture above bterm is pretty straight forward termial at first sight. Top bar is reserved for tabs. Than is the main shell window. Bottom bar gives the user some very useful information about present working directory. If this directory is also git repository you can find the branch name in botom right corner. And at the end is the settings button which opens the right settings menu.

Usage

In short you can use bterm just like you are used to use your old terminal. Bterm offers some nice features:

On bottom bar you can at all times see which directory are you in.
If you are inside the directory which is git repository you can see the name of the branch you are in on the bottom bar.
if bterm recognizes git and compatible shell (like bash or zsh) it shows currently active branch too .

bterm for development:

Inside of bterm you can use all development tools that you need for your work:

git - version control
text editors (vim, nano ...)
package managers like (npm, python-pip ...)
ssh for remote access

And all the others. Important of course you need to install all tools mentioned above properly. All windows user we already know the process about adding dev tools to system path and adjusting the settings.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts in bterm are similar as you already know them for instance ctrl + t for new tab or ctrl + n for new window.

Copy and Paste

To copy select text first then right-click on it and select Copy
To paste right click and select Paste.

Clicking links in bterm

For opening links from bterm you simply used the hotkey that you can choose inside settings + click. for example ctrl + click .

Hacking on bterm

git clone https://github.com/bleenco/bterm.git
npm install
npm start

To make a production build run

npm run dist

Preview

LICENCE

MIT

jkuri / bterm