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dracxterm puts a real Linux workstation on your Android phone. Open it and a shell is ready to type in. When you want more, the app installs Debian 13 or Kali Linux inside its own storage, and you work the way you would on a laptop. The phone does not need root, there is no account to create, and no companion app to install.
A real Linux, inside the app
Pick a distro and the app downloads and sets it up for you. Once it is in place you get apt, dpkg, sudo, su and fakeroot, so you can install packages, build software, and run tools like git, ssh, curl, python and nmap the way you would on a desktop. VHDP, a rootless engine built into the app, runs the Linux session. On a phone that cannot run it, the app falls back to an older engine on its own, so the terminal still works. Decline the distro entirely and you still get a working BusyBox shell.
claw, an assistant that lives in your terminal
What makes dracxterm more than a terminal is claw. Type claw chat and ask in plain wor
Features
- It works the moment you open it. No root, no account.
- New in 1.1.0: claw, an assistant inside the distro. Type claw chat and ask in plain words, no account needed.
- You choose what claw may touch on the AI (claw) page in xset. Files and commands start switched off.
- Debian 13 and Kali install inside the app itself, five images from Kali Nano to Kali Full, for arm64 or x86_64.
- Say no to the distro and the terminal still opens, with BusyBox as the shell.
- VHDP, a rootless engine, runs the Linux session. A phone that refuses it gets the older fallback instead, picked by a test the app runs there once.
- Check the engine yourself with vhdp doctor, vhdp inspect, or the Diagnostics page in xset.
- sudo, su and fakeroot give you root inside the app, enough for apt-get, dpkg -i and sudo nmap.
- Colours, cursor shapes, scrollback and the alternate screen that nano, vim and htop need.
- 256 colours and 24-bit truecolor, and full UTF-8 with CJK, emoji and combining marks.
- Select text, search the screen, copy and paste, and mouse support for programs that use it.
- Five workspaces, each with its own shell, directory and history, one swipe apart.
- Sessions keep running while you use another app.
- A sliding key row: arrows, Ctrl, Alt, Esc, Tab, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, search and paste.
- Hardware keyboards send Ctrl, Alt, Shift and F1 to F12.
- Pinch to resize the text, in JetBrains Mono or your system font, 7 to 28 dp.
- Settings drawn inside the terminal, opened by typing xset, in six languages.
- Themes, cursor shape and blink, line and letter spacing, padding, and scrollback from 200 to 20000 lines.
- Export your settings as JSON, import them back, or reset them.
- Storage access stays off until you switch it on, then your files sit at ~/sdcard and an SD card at ~/sdcard-1.
- Downloads run over HTTPS, resume where they stopped, and are checked before anything is unpacked.
- Ollama installs from inside the terminal on arm64 phones, around 1.5 GB.
- claw's autonomous mode is now a-work: give it a goal and a team of agents works on it with a live graph.
- New Update page in xset checks for a newer version and shows the release notes.
- Ten monospace fonts and three redrawn themes.
- More Linux programs run, including Go, Rust and musl tools.
- A white-hat pentest skill for claw.
- A failed distro download now really retries and says what went wrong.
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