AZTerm

AZTerm is a fast, lightweight, and cross-platform native terminal emulator, SSH bookmark manager, dual-session SFTP client, and tiling workspace manager written in pure Rust.

Built with hardware-accelerated immediate-mode GPU graphics, AZTerm provides a fluid, responsive interface with zero Electron or Chromium web overhead, maintaining an ultra-low memory footprint (~20 MB to 45 MB RAM) and sub-30ms startup times.

One-Line Install (Pipe to Bash)

Run this single command in your terminal to automatically download, compile, and install AZTerm with full desktop integration:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AZBrandCanada/azTerm/main/install.sh | bash

Or using wget:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AZBrandCanada/azTerm/main/install.sh | bash

Direct Downloads (Precompiled Releases)

Download pre-compiled standalone release binaries:

• Universal Linux AppImage: Download AZTerm-x86_64.AppImage
• Debian / Ubuntu Package: Download azterm_0.1.6_amd64.deb
• Generic Linux Tarball: Download azterm-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
• Windows 64-bit Archive: Download azterm-windows-x86_64.zip
• macOS Universal Package: Download azterm-macos-universal.tar.gz

To view all versions and changelogs, visit the AZTerm Releases Page.

Key Features

1. High-Performance Native Terminal Engine

• Pure Rust & GPU-Accelerated: Rendered with direct hardware acceleration and zero web runtime latency.
• Deep Scrollback History: Up to 10,000 lines of scrollback history per session with smooth mouse wheel scrolling, interactive scrollbar, and Shift+PageUp/PageDown navigation.
• Smart Progress Bar & Unicode Handling: Correct handling of wide characters and carriage returns (\r) prevents system update logs (pacman, apt, cargo, dnf) from squishing onto a single line.
• Copy on Select & Right-Click Paste: Highlighting text automatically copies it to the system clipboard upon release; right-clicking writes clipboard contents directly into the active prompt.
• Persistent Selection Across Scrollback: Highlighting text anchors to absolute buffer line coordinates, allowing selections to persist and follow the text as you scroll.
• Persistent Zoom Level: Scale the entire UI and terminal font dynamically with Ctrl + +, Ctrl + -, Ctrl + 0, or Ctrl + MouseWheel. Your chosen zoom level is saved and restored on startup.

2. Interactive Tiling & Split Panes

• Instant Splits: Split any active pane side-by-side (Split |) or stacked (Split -) using top bar controls or hotkeys (Ctrl+Shift+D / Ctrl+Shift+E).
• Visual Drag-and-Drop Docking: Drag any pane by its title bar (::) or any tab header onto another pane's dock zones (Left, Right, Top, Bottom) with live snap-preview highlights.
• Draggable Dividers: Freely resize width and height ratios between tiled panes by dragging the divider with the mouse.
• Slim In-Pane Control Bar: Each tiled pane features an in-pane strip showing its title, active focus indicator, split shortcuts, full-pane maximize (Max), pop-out to separate tab (Pop), and close (X).
• Auto-Hiding Tab Line: When working in a single-pane tab, the second-row tab bar auto-hides to maximize vertical screen space, reappearing as soon as multiple tabs or splits exist.
• Chunked Grid Tiling: Tile all open sessions into balanced grids in batches of up to 16 panes per tab.

3. Comprehensive Theme Engine & Transparency

• 8 Built-in Theme Presets: Cyber Cyan (Default), Dracula, Nord, Tokyo Night, One Dark, Monokai Pro, Matrix Green, and Solarized Dark.
• Custom Theme Creator: Duplicate any preset, edit all UI elements with live color pickers, and create your own themes.
• Full 16-Color ANSI Terminal Palette: Customize standard and bright ANSI colors directly in Settings so command line utilities (ls, htop, syntax highlighters) match your theme.
• Adjustable Window Transparency: Control background opacity from 20% to 100% with a real-time slider.
• OS Native vs. Custom Window Bar: Switch between native OS window manager decorations and AZTerm's integrated title bar featuring draggable top areas, double-click maximize, and 8-zone edge/corner resizing.

4. Advanced SSH & Keypair Manager

• Built-in Ed25519 Key Generator: Generate SSH keypairs with one-click public key copying for quick addition to remote ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.
• Inline Key Pasting & Secure Permissions: Paste OpenSSH private keys directly into profile dialogs with automatic chmod 0600 enforcement in ~/.config/azterm/keys/.
• Profile Management: Organize servers with custom ports, usernames, identity files, and group tags.

5. Dual-Session SFTP File Explorer

• SSH Connection Multiplexing (ControlMaster): The SFTP engine shares your authenticated terminal connection, eliminating redundant logins, password re-entry, and permission errors.
• Dual-Pane Transfer Interface: Simultaneously browse two targets (Local <-> Remote or Session <-> Session) with one-click Upload and Download actions.
• Live Split-View Drawer: Toggle the SFTP drawer in the bottom status bar to view your remote server's filesystem side-by-side with your live shell.

6. SQLite Workspace & Session Persistence

• State Preservation: Open tabs, tiled layouts, split ratios, active profiles, themes, zoom levels, and settings are saved automatically to ~/.config/azterm/azterm.db.
• Seamless Restoration: Relaunching AZTerm restores your previous workspace state and tabs.

7. Native Desktop & OS Integration

• File Manager Context Menus: Right-click any folder or background in KDE Dolphin, GNOME Nautilus, or Nemo to select Open in AZTerm Here.
• URI Protocol Handlers: Registers ssh:// and sftp:// URI schemes with your desktop environment.
• Desktop Launcher: Full .desktop and scalable vector icon integration across KDE Plasma 6/5, GNOME, XFCE, Hyprland, Sway, and i3.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Manual Installation by Distribution

Arch Linux / CachyOS / Manjaro

git clone https://github.com/AZBrandCanada/azTerm.git
cd azTerm
./install-arch.sh

Fedora

git clone https://github.com/AZBrandCanada/azTerm.git
cd azTerm
./install-fedora.sh

Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint / Pop!_OS

git clone https://github.com/AZBrandCanada/azTerm.git
cd azTerm
./install-debian.sh

Command Line Usage

AZTerm supports standard terminal CLI parameters:

# Open default shell / restore previous workspace
azterm

# Open AZTerm directly in a specific directory
azterm /var/log
azterm -d /home/user/projects

# Connect directly to an SSH host
azterm ssh://root@192.168.1.100:22

# Launch directly into the SFTP file manager
azterm --sftp

# Execute a command in a new terminal session
azterm -e htop

Multi-Platform Packaging

To generate all distribution packages into the dist/ directory:

./package-all.sh

Outputs generated:

• dist/AZTerm-x86_64.AppImage (Universal Linux standalone binary)
• dist/azterm-0.1.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst (Arch Linux native package)
• dist/azterm_0.1.6_amd64.deb (Debian / Ubuntu package)
• dist/azterm-linux-x86_64.tar.gz (Generic Linux archive)
• dist/azterm-windows-x86_64.zip (Windows 64-bit executable archive)

Uninstallation

To remove AZTerm, its desktop launchers, and file manager context menus from your system:

./uninstall.sh

To also remove all saved SQLite configuration history and session data:

rm -rf ~/.config/azterm

License

Dual-licensed under either the MIT License or the Apache License (Version 2.0).