electerm

Open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client(linux, mac, win).

For experienced developers, you may try the web app version running in browser(including mobile device): electerm-web or docker image for electerm-web

Online demo: https://electerm-demo.html5beta.com

Features

Works as a terminal/file manager or ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client
Support Window 7+(X64/ARM64), Mac OS 10.15+(x64/arm64), Linux(x64/arm64), even old Linux with glibc 2.17+ like UOS/Kylin/Ubuntu 18.04 etc
Global hotkey to toggle window visibility (similar to guake, default is ctrl + 2)
Multi platform(linux, mac, win)
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Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
Auth with publicKey + password.
Support Zmodem(rz, sz).
Support ssh tunnel.
Support Trzsz(trz/tsz), similar to rz/sz, and compatible with tmux.
Transparent window(Mac, win).
Terminal background image.
Global/session proxy.
Quick commands
UI/terminal theme
Sync bookmarks/themes/quick commands to github/gitee secret gist
Quick input to one or all terminals.
AI assistant integration (supporting DeepSeek, OpenAI, and other AI APIs) to help with command suggestions, script writing, and explaining selected terminal content
MCP (Model Context Protocol) widget for AI assistants and external tools integration - see MCP Widget Usage Guide
Deep link support: Open connections with URLs like telnet://192.168.2.31:34554 or ssh://user@host:22 - see Deep link support wiki
Command line usage: check wiki

Download

Install

For Mac user: brew install --cask electerm
With snap: sudo snap install electerm --classic
For some Linux distribution, you can find it from OS default App store(Ubuntu, Deepin, Mint...).
For some linux OS, the rpm, deb, or snap release may not work, you can try the tar.gz or .appImage release.
For Windows users, you can install it from windows store, command-line installer winget and scoop is also recommended:

# winget https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
winget install electerm.electerm

# scoop https://github.com/lukesampson/scoop
scoop bucket add dorado https://github.com/chawyehsu/dorado
scoop install dorado/electerm

Install from Debian repository (for Debian/Ubuntu-based systems) with apt command

Check https://electerm-repos.html5beta.com/deb

Install from npm

npm i -g electerm

# After installation, it will immediately open for windows and linux,
# For macOS, it will open the drag to install panel

Upgrade

Auto upgrade: When a new version is released, you will get an upgrade notification after you start electerm again. You can then click the upgrade button to upgrade.
Download: Just download the latest edition, reinstall.
Npm: If you install from npm, just run npm i -g electerm again.
If use Snap or some other distribution system, these systems may provide upgrades.

Known issues

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Know-issues

Troubleshoot

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Troubleshoot

Discussion

Discussion board

Support

Would love to hear from you, please tell me what you think, submit an issue, Start a new discussion, create/fix language files or create pull requests, all welcome.

Sponsor this project

github sponsor

https://github.com/sponsors/electerm

kofi

https://ko-fi.com/zhaoxudong

wechat donate

Dev

# May only works in Linux
# needs nodejs/npm, suggest using nvm to install nodejs/npm
# with nodejs 22.x

git clone git@github.com:electerm/electerm.git
cd electerm
npm config set legacy-peer-deps true
npm i

# start vite dev server, requires port 5570
npm start

# in a separate terminal session run app
npm run app

# code format check
npm run lint

# code format fix
npm run fix

Test

npm run b
npm run prepare-test
cp .sample.env .env

# edit .env, fill your test host/username/password, may only works in mac OS
npm run test

Test build

# May only works in Linux
# Install yarn first(to do yarn autoclean)
# See https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/install

# Build linux only with -l
npm i
npm run b
npm run pb
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux tar.gz
# or replace tar.gz to rpm/deb/AppImage
# check dist/ folder

# build for linux arm/
./node_modules/.bin/electron-builder --linux --arm64

Video guide

https://electerm.html5beta.com/videos

Change log

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License

MIT

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