vterm

A cross-platform, Vulkan terminal emulator written in Rust.

The project is not usable in its current state and is subject to change a lot.

Project Status

• Windowing
• Rendering pipeline
• Image drawing
• Font drawing
• Custom font loading
• Layouting for UI layer (Bugged right now)
• Ptty
• Handle input
• Terminal buffer to screen
• Tabs
• Draggable / multi window
• Menus, settings
• Config

Dependencies

• Vulkan SDK
• Rust nightly

Installation

For detailed installation instructions, please refer to the INSTALL.md file.

Note: Is your platform not supported? Either wait or contribute.

Note: There is a small execution barrier (~200ms) before the terminal opens on NVIDIA cards. This is a driver-related issue. It has something to do with vkCreateInstance and vkCreateDevice being extremely slow on NVIDIA cards. I am hoping to improve it as much as possible, but the biggest overhead lies in the lack of driver optimization. So I think we can expect improvements soon.