Multi-Terminal

Terminal app with tabs, tmux-style splits, themes, and a command palette. Built with Tauri 2, React, TypeScript, and Rust.

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Contents

• Download
• Features
• Keybindings
• Themes
• Build from source
• Project structure
• Configuration
• Troubleshooting
• License

Download

Pre-built Windows installer:

➡️ Latest release on GitHub

Grab the .exe installer, run it, done. macOS and Linux: build from source (see below).

Features

• Tabs — multiple terminals side-by-side in tabs with drag-to-reorder, rename, middle-click close.
• Splits — tmux-style horizontal and vertical splits with draggable dividers and geometric focus navigation (Alt + arrows).
• New-tab dialog — the + button opens a picker where you choose profile, starting directory (with live subdirectory autocomplete), and an initial pane layout (1, 2 columns, 2 rows, 3 columns, main + stack, 2×2 grid).
• Profiles — PowerShell, cmd, WSL, bash, zsh, fish, nu, git bash, … auto-detected on first run. Add custom shell profiles with per-profile args, env, cwd, icon, and color.
• Themes — 10 built-in color schemes (Tokyo Night, Dracula, Nord, Catppuccin Mocha, One Dark, Gruvbox Dark, Solarized Dark, Monokai Pro, Ayu Dark, GitHub Light) plus a live theme editor for custom schemes.
• Command palette — Ctrl+Shift+P with fuzzy search over every command.
• Customizable keybindings — every command has a configurable accelerator in Settings → Keybindings, including chord shortcuts.
• GPU-accelerated rendering — xterm.js with the WebGL renderer, ligatures, Unicode 11 width, link-under-cursor.
• Custom title bar — native-feeling window controls (no OS chrome), draggable anywhere in the titlebar.
• Search in terminal — Ctrl+Shift+F opens an in-buffer search with highlights.

Keybindings

Defaults shown below. Every binding is editable under Settings → Keybindings.

Tabs

Action	Shortcut
New tab (default profile)	Ctrl+T
New tab (dialog with profile + layout + cwd)	click + in tab bar
Close tab	Ctrl+W
Next / previous tab	Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab
Jump to tab 1–9	Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9

Panes (splits)

Action	Shortcut
Split horizontally	Ctrl+Shift+E
Split vertically	Ctrl+Shift+O
Close pane	Ctrl+Shift+W
Focus pane left / right / up / down	Alt+← / Alt+→ / Alt+↑ / Alt+↓
Zoom active pane	Ctrl+Shift+Z

Terminal

Action	Shortcut
Copy	Ctrl+Shift+C
Paste	Ctrl+Shift+V
Clear	Ctrl+L
Find in buffer	Ctrl+Shift+F
Zoom in / out / reset	Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0

Application

Action	Shortcut
Command palette	Ctrl+Shift+P
Open settings	Ctrl+,
Switch theme	Ctrl+K Ctrl+T

Themes

Built-in themes ship with accurate upstream palettes:

Tokyo Night · Dracula · Nord · Catppuccin Mocha · One Dark · Gruvbox Dark · Solarized Dark · Monokai Pro · Ayu Dark · GitHub Light.

Open the Theme Editor (Ctrl+K Ctrl+T, or Settings → Appearance → Customize theme…) to tweak every terminal / UI color with a live preview. Custom themes are stored locally under the multiterminal:custom-themes localStorage key.

Build from source

Prerequisites

All platforms:

• Node.js 18+
• Rust stable (rustup is recommended)

Platform-specific system dependencies (from tauri.app/start/prerequisites):

• Windows — Microsoft Edge WebView2 (pre-installed on Windows 10+; otherwise the Evergreen Bootstrapper) and Visual Studio C++ Build Tools.
• macOS — Xcode Command Line Tools: xcode-select --install.
• Linux — webkit2gtk-4.1, libayatana-appindicator3, librsvg2, openssl, build-essential (check your distro's Tauri prerequisites page).

Clone and run

git clone https://github.com/eneskrdm/Multi-Terminal.git
cd Multi-Terminal
npm install
npm run tauri:dev

tauri:dev starts the Vite dev server and launches the Rust backend against it with hot reload on the frontend.

Type-check only

npm run typecheck

Production build

npm run tauri:build

Output:

• Windows: src-tauri/target/release/bundle/nsis/*.exe (installer), plus Multi-Terminal.exe portable binary.
• macOS: .dmg under bundle/dmg.
• Linux: .deb / .rpm / .AppImage under bundle/.

Regenerate icons

Icons are checked in, but can be regenerated with the Python helper:

cd src-tauri/icons
python gen.py

Requires Pillow: pip install Pillow.

Project structure

Multi-Terminal/
├── src/                           React + TypeScript frontend
│   ├── components/
│   │   ├── AppShell/               top-level layout
│   │   ├── TitleBar/               custom window chrome
│   │   ├── TabBar/                 tabs + drag-reorder + + button
│   │   ├── NewTabDialog/           profile + layout + cwd picker
│   │   ├── Terminal/               xterm.js wrapper
│   │   ├── SplitPane/              recursive split tree + draggable dividers
│   │   ├── CommandPalette/         cmdk-based palette
│   │   ├── Settings/               settings modal (5 sections)
│   │   ├── ThemeEditor/            theme editor + live preview
│   │   ├── StatusBar/              bottom status bar
│   │   ├── ContextMenu/            right-click menu
│   │   └── common/                 Button, Input, Dialog, Switch, Kbd, …
│   ├── store/                      Zustand stores (tabs, layout, terminals, settings, themes)
│   ├── themes/                     10 built-in theme palettes
│   ├── lib/
│   │   ├── tauri.ts                 typed IPC wrapper
│   │   ├── commands.ts              command registry + dispatcher + UI store
│   │   └── events.ts                tiny typed event bus
│   ├── hooks/
│   │   ├── useHotkeys.ts            global keybinding listener
│   │   └── useContextMenu.ts
│   ├── styles/                     reset / variables / scrollbar / animations / globals
│   └── types/index.ts              shared types (the contract)
├── src-tauri/                     Rust backend
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── lib.rs                  Tauri bootstrap, plugin + command registration
│   │   ├── pty/manager.rs          portable-pty lifecycle + reader threads + title parsing
│   │   ├── commands/
│   │   │   ├── terminal.rs         create / write / resize / kill / list
│   │   │   ├── settings.rs         settings_load / settings_save
│   │   │   ├── shell.rs            shell autodetect
│   │   │   ├── window.rs           window controls (min/max/close)
│   │   │   └── fs.rs               home / expand / list-subdirs / path-is-dir
│   │   ├── config/                 Settings / Profile + default keybindings
│   │   ├── state.rs                shared AppState
│   │   └── error.rs                AppError + Result alias
│   ├── Cargo.toml
│   ├── tauri.conf.json
│   └── icons/                      app icons (ico / icns / png)
├── CONTRACT.md                    inter-module contract (types, commands, stores)
├── LICENSE                        MIT
└── package.json

Configuration

Settings are persisted to the OS data directory:

• Windows — %APPDATA%\MultiTerminal\settings.json
• macOS — ~/Library/Application Support/MultiTerminal/settings.json
• Linux — ~/.local/share/MultiTerminal/settings.json

Theme overrides and recent directories use browser localStorage inside the WebView.

All settings can be changed through the Settings UI (Ctrl+,). The JSON file is also hand-editable when the app is closed.

Troubleshooting

• No shell profile after first launch. The backend picks pwsh.exe → powershell.exe → cmd.exe on Windows, $SHELL → /bin/bash → /bin/sh elsewhere. If none are on PATH, open Settings → Profiles → Add profile and point it at a shell binary manually.
• Font looks wrong. The default is Cascadia Code. Install it from microsoft/cascadia-code or change the family under Settings → Appearance.
• WebGL renderer fails. The terminal falls back to the canvas renderer automatically. Toggle it off under Settings → Advanced → WebGL rendering.
• Windows installer warning. The installer isn't code-signed. Click "More info" → "Run anyway" in SmartScreen; the signing certificate is an upcoming addition.

License

MIT © 2026 Enes Karademir

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_{Made by Enes Karademir.}