GuacTerm

A dead simple, guake-style terminal for MacOS. Pull it down and dismiss it back up with a single keyboard shortcut.

No tabs or splits or profiles to manage, just the essentials and some quality of life features. For stuff like tabs, you can always use tmux or zellij.

Features

• Fully native terminal with GPU accelerated rendering
• Graphics support including sixel, iTerm2, and kitty images
• Mouse reporting & OSC 52 clipboard control
• Liquid glass background for native look and feel
• Support for iTerm2 color schemes, with 800+ color schemes from mbadolato/iterm2-Color-Schemes

Install

Download GuacTerm-<version>.dmg from the latest GitHub release.

Development

Install XCode command line tools and xcodegen, then:

make project     # regenerate GuacTerm.xcodeproj from project.yml
make run         # build and launch
make dmg         # build and package a disk image in dist/
make release     # notarize, package, sign the update feed, publish a release

Run ./scripts/setup-dev.sh to install the pre-commit hook which will run lints and formatting checks before each commit.

License

GuacTerm is licensed under MIT.

It bundles the color schemes of iTerm2-Color-Schemes and links SwiftTerm and Sparkle, all MIT. Their notices, and the per-scheme credits, are reproduced in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.