contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aimed at power users with a modern feature mindset. Available on all 4 major platforms, Linux, OS/X, FreeBSD, Windows. GPU-accelerated rendering. Font ligatures support (such as in Fira Code). Unicode: Emoji support (-: 🌈 💝 😛 👪 - including ZWJ, VS15, VS16 emoji :-) Unicode: Grapheme cluster support. Bold and italic fonts. High-DPI support. Vertical Line Markers (quickly jump to markers in your history!) Vi-like input modes for improved selection and copy'n'paste experience and Vi-like scrolloff feature. Blurred behind transparent background when using Windows 10 or KDE window manager on Linux. Blurrable Background image support. Runtime configuration reload. 256-color and Truecolor support. Key binding customization.

Features

  • Color Schemes
  • Clickable hyperlinks via OSC 8
  • Clipboard setting via OSC 52
  • Sixel inline images
  • Terminal page buffer capture VT extension to quickly extract contents.
  • Read-only mode, protecting against accidental user-input to the running application

Project Samples

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Categories

Graphics, Libraries

License

Apache License V2.0

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

C++

Related Categories

C++ Graphics Software, C++ Libraries

Registered

2022-10-17
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