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Terminal

elementary, Inc.

Use the command line

Terminal is a terminal emulator application for accessing a UNIX shell environment which can be used to run programs available on your system.

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What's New:

6.1.0 – Aug 11, 2022

New features:

  • Option to follow system dark style preference
  • Create a custom color palette

Fixes:

  • Default styles are fully opaque and updated to the latest upstream values from Solarized for improved legibility

Other updates:

  • Translation updates
  • Performance improvements
6.0.2 – May 16, 2022

New features:

  • Switch tabs with Alt + 1-9
  • Quit with Ctrl + Shift + Q

Fixes:

  • Fix build on OS 7

Other updates:

  • Translation updates
6.0.1 – Dec 13, 2021

Fixes:

  • Properly restore zoom levels for all locales

Other updates:

  • Use XTerm title for window title if available
  • Change "Reload Tab" shortcut to Shift + F5 to avoid clash with some foreground processes
  • Change preferred shortcut for "Reload Tab" to Shift + Control + R
  • Translation updates
6.0.0 – Jun 15, 2020

New features:

  • Move tabs with the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + ←/→
  • Switch tabs with the shortcuts Ctrl + Tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab
  • Zoom levels are now remembered per-tab
  • Also warn about multi-line pastes
  • Show text details in unsafe paste dialogs
  • Open Link option when secondary clicking
  • Reload tabs in the context menu or with the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + R
  • Notifications indicate if a process exited with errors or not
  • Show keyboard shortcuts in tab context menus

Other updates:

  • Fix an issue with keyboard shortcuts not activating the first time they're pressed
  • Avoid losing focus when closing background tabs
  • Validate custom palette
  • Translation updates
5.5.2 – Apr 1, 2020

New features:

  • Add commandline option for New Tab (-t)

Other updates:

  • Fix URL selection
  • Translation updates
5.5.1 – Jan 11, 2020

New features:

  • Add commandline option for "Show version" (-v, --version)
  • Add commandline option for New Window (-n)

Other updates:

  • Prevent duplicate tab on startup
  • Prevent unnecessary Home tab on startup
  • Translation updates
5.5.0 – Jan 2, 2020

New features:

  • Turn Natural Copy/Paste on or off in the Settings menu
  • Zoom with Ctrl + Scroll

Other updates:

  • Include sudo password prompt when copying last output
  • Apply font changes without restarting
  • Translation updates
5.4.0 – Nov 15, 2019
  • Don't remember tabs when History is disabled in System Settings
  • Show keyboard shortcuts in the secondary-click menu
  • Middle-click paste now properly follows System Settings
  • Shift + Control + D to duplicate tabs
  • Use neutral colors for the dark style scheme
  • Slightly pad text from the edge of the window
  • Translation updates
5.3.6 – Jul 15, 2019
  • Pressing the Menu key now opens the context menu
  • Store state with GSettings
  • Translation updates
5.3.5 – Jun 4, 2019
  • Support Ctrl+Equal key combo to zoom in
  • Fix a wrong foreground process response code
  • Translation updates
5.3.4 – Mar 29, 2019
  • Return focus after popover menu closes
  • Prevent search and style buttons from receiving focus
  • Hide the cursor while typing
  • Translation updates
5.3.3 – Dec 6, 2018
  • Fix erratic search text highlightning behavior
  • Support -h flag for help
  • Disable audible bell
  • Add Alt+↑ action to scroll to last command
  • Add Alt+c action to copy last output
  • Add accels to tooltips
  • Translation updates
5.3.2 – Oct 30, 2018
  • Fix zsh notifications
  • Conditional ctrl+g shortcut to deconflict with emacs
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
5.3.1 – Oct 16, 2018
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.5.3 – Sep 6, 2018
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.5.2 – Aug 22, 2018
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.5.1 – Jul 23, 2018
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.5.0 – Jun 19, 2018
  • FISH integration fixes
  • Theme preference menu
  • Zoom level controls
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.4.3 – Jul 22, 2017
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.4.2 – May 15, 2017
  • Allow tab to close after typing exit at the commandline
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.4.1 – May 6, 2017
  • Fix copying URLs to clipboard
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.4.0.3 – Jan 4, 2017
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates
0.4.0.2 – Oct 30, 2016
  • Fix appstream date format
0.4.0.1 – Oct 30, 2016
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Translation updates