AROS Term By Tomasz Staniak

AROS mainline / x86_64 / Development preview

A modern terminal.
An Amiga at heart.

Your AROS Shell, with room for more.
Run commands, work with interactive apps and connect to remote machines.

Explore the terminal What works today
RUNNING ON AROSRust + Ratatui
AROS desktop with a native terminal running a two-pane Ratatui interface. The selected Unicode row shows Latin, Greek, Japanese text and an emoji.
An interactive app running on AROS: keyboard navigation, mouse input and a draggable divider. This demo is built with Rust and Ratatui.
Native ShellInteractive appsUnicode & emojiBuilt for AROS mainline

01 / The everyday essentials

More than a place
to type commands.

A native window into the system you already know, with the tools to do more inside it.

01

Your real AROS Shell

Run your commands and installed tools, with the aliases, paths and startup settings you already use.

02

Text beyond ASCII

International text, Japanese and Chinese characters, and emoji. Clean lines and borders for text-based interfaces.

03

Copy, paste, keep working

Copy to the system clipboard, select across lines and paste multiple commands with a safety check. Scroll back to earlier output.

04

Keyboard and mouse

Recall commands, edit them and complete names and paths. Navigate interactive apps with clicks, scrolling and dragging.

05

More than scrolling text

Full-screen interfaces, coloured output and live updates. Run an interactive app, then return to your Shell.

06

Small things that help

Recognise web links, preview their destinations and copy addresses. The standalone terminal also offers dark, light and high-contrast themes.

02 / Real applications, real progress

A little more possible.

Local applications and remote tools, in the same terminal. Two examples of what is running today.

Ratatui running natively on AROS with a two-column Unicode interface.

Local / Interactive applications

More room to work.

Resize the window, drag the divider and navigate with the keyboard or mouse. This Ratatui demo runs locally on AROS.

An image rendered as coloured text symbols by remote Chafa, displayed in AROS Term over SSH.

Remote / SSH preview

Reach beyond the machine.

Connect to another machine from AROS with the SSH preview. Here, Chafa turns an image into coloured text on the remote machine.

03 / Where things stand

Useful today.
More ahead.

The goal is a terminal you can use every day: at home in AROS, ready for modern command-line tools.

Working in the current build

  • Native Shell with history and completion.
  • Unicode, clipboard and scrollback.
  • Interactive application demo with mouse support.
  • Remote sessions through an SSH preview.
  • Running on AROS mainline, x86_64.

Where we are heading

  • A dependable everyday alternative to KingCON and VincED.
  • Broader compatibility with command-line tools and multiplexers such as tmux.
  • Richer colours, tabs and importable themes.
  • Closer integration with editors and the Shell.
  • Images inside the terminal.
  • aarch64 support after x86_64.

Capability snapshot: . AROS Term is an independent project by Tomasz Staniak, not an official AROS release.