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WezTerm

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A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

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License model

  • Free • Open Source

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Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
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4.3 / 5 Avg rating (6)
16likes
5comments
93alternatives
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Properties

  1.  Configurable
  2.  Support for Themes
  3.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  GPU Acceleration
  2.  Lua scripting
  3.  Hyperlinks
  4.  Font Ligature Support
  5.  WSL integreation
  6.  Split tabs
  7.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
  8.  Support for scripting
  9.  Tab Manager
  10.  Multi panel

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    POX added WezTerm as alternative to ReTerminal
    •11 days ago
  • daveasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf reviewed WezTerm  
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    •3 months ago

    Could not get this configured properly on Win10 for love nor money. Followed countless guides on the website, copying and pasting stuff from example .lua files. Always got washed out colours that weren't the ones I wanted. Installed tabby instead and had that setup in under a minute.

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    POX added WezTerm as alternative to Ghostty
    •4 months ago
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    K0RR added WezTerm as alternative to Liri Terminal
    •5 months ago
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    POX added WezTerm as alternative to Tess
    •6 months ago
  • twowunetwork liked WezTerm
    •8 months ago
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    Watitumorro added WezTerm as alternative to SmartPack Kernel Manager
    •8 months ago
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    RemovedUser added WezTerm as alternative to Opaque
    •9 months ago
  • POX added WezTerm as alternative to YAET
    •9 months ago
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    POX added WezTerm as alternative to Ptyxis
    •11 months ago
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WezTerm information

  • Developed by

    Wez Furlong

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3

  • Alternatives

    93 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

OS & Utilities, Development, Web Browsers, System & Hardware

GitHub repository

  •  19,969 Stars
  •  891 Forks
  •  1259 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 18, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about WezTerm, and it has gotten 16 likes

WezTerm was added to AlternativeTo by Nyagu on Nov 14, 2019 and this page was last updated May 15, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Przemek
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•Feb 26, 2024
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WezTerm looks like the best cross-system terminal option as of now, if you like configurability:

  • it supports new Unicode/fonts like Nerd Fonts problemlessly
  • it provides you access to modern features such as hyperlinks, images, non-widely supported ANSI escape sequence formatting
  • it's stable, unlike e.g. Windows Terminal
  • it's written in Rust, which is fast
  • on top it's scriptable with Lua, so you can add a bunch of features it's missing yourself, like copying with mouse or saving/restoring sessions
Top Negative Comment
daveasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf
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•Jan 28, 2025
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Could not get this configured properly on Win10 for love nor money. Followed countless guides on the website, copying and pasting stuff from example .lua files. Always got washed out colours that weren't the ones I wanted. Installed tabby instead and had that setup in under a minute.

anselmus
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•Feb 13, 2024
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Very nice terminal emulator. There are many many themes. Also it is highly customizable (live). The config is in lua and is portable. There is multi pane and multi tab support. Only negative: The thing always hangs when closing _

okwithmydecay
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•Dec 5, 2023
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Automatically adds NerdFont without needing to manually patch a font

Guest
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•Jan 20, 2022
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Very fast evolving project running smoot on any platform I use.

What is WezTerm?

A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

Featuring:

  • Multiplex terminal panes, tabs and windows on local and remote hosts, with native mouse and scrollback
  • Ligatures, Color Emoji and font fallback, with true color and dynamic color schemes.
  • Hyperlinks
  • Searchable Scrollback
  • xterm style selection of text with mouse; paste selection via Shift-Insert (bracketed paste is supported!)
  • SGR style mouse reporting (works in vim and tmux)
  • Render underline, double-underline, italic, bold, strikethrough (most other terminal emulators do not support as many render attributes)
  • Configuration via a configuration file with hot reloading
  • Multiple Windows
  • Splits/Panes (currently only in the nightly builds)
  • Tabs
  • SSH client with native tabs
  • Connect to serial ports for embedded/Arduino work
  • Connect to a local multiplexer server over unix domain sockets
  • Connect to a remote multiplexer using SSH or TLS over TCP/IP
  • iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in imgcat command
  • Sixel graphics support (experimental: starting in 20200620-160318-e00b076c)

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