← Back to all Apps

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.

Source

Project links: Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: early

This project has been in development for a short time only. It should work mostly fine, but expect bugs and an incomplete featureset.

Features

 Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

 This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Is this app packaged for my distribution?

green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Packaging status

Powered by Repology


Get it on Flathub!

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.

Find similar apps

By Category: terminal emulator

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: Utility

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