Black Box
A beautiful GTK 4 terminal Source
Description
Black Box is a native terminal emulator for GNOME that offers superb theming options.
With Black Box you can:
- Set colors schemes and integrate them with the rest of the window
- Customize font and size
- Customize keyboard shortcuts
- Render Sixel escape sequences
- Fully hide the window headerbar
- Quickly open links and files by ctrl+clicking file paths and URLs
- Easily paste file paths by dragging them into the window
This app is written in Vala and uses GTK 4, libadwaita, and VTE.
Rating
Mobile Fit: 5Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!
Project status: released
This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.
The project repository was created on 2022-04-14.
The last known commit happened on 2025-03-17.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-05-09
Features
✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.
Packaging
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Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/com.raggesilver.BlackBox.flatpakref
If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:
Install* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.
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Licensing and technical details
License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0
Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita
Programming languages: Vala
Build system: meson
AppStream Metadata URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/raggesilver/blackbox/-/raw/main/data/com.raggesilver.BlackBox.metainfo.xml.in