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dracxterm is a terminal for Android. Open it and a shell is waiting. If you want a full Linux, the app can install Debian 13 or Kali inside its own storage, and you work as you would on a computer. The phone does not need root, and there is no account to create.
The terminal draws colours and keeps scrollback, so full-screen programs like nano and htop look right. UTF-8 text displays properly, CJK included. You get five workspaces, each with its own shell and history, plus an extra key row for Ctrl, Alt, Esc and the arrows.
Type xset to open the settings. They live inside the terminal and change as you slide them.
Inside the distro, sudo, su and apt work as usual, and dpkg installs .deb packages. Every download is checked before anything is unpacked.
In 1.0.6, Kali opens all the way to a prompt, and package installs on Kali Full finish.
No ads and no trackers. Nothing is sent to the developer, and it goes online only when you ask for a download.
Features
- It works the moment you open it. No root, no account.
- Say no to the distro and the terminal still opens, with BusyBox as the shell.
- Debian 13 and Kali install inside the app itself, five images from Kali Nano to Kali Full, for arm64 or x86_64.
- 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 and dpkg -i.
- 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.
- 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, changing as you slide them.
- Themes, cursor shape and blink, line and letter spacing, padding, and scrollback from 200 to 20000 lines.
- 16. 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.
- No ads, no trackers, nothing sent to the developer.
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