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Introduction
Terminal Delight is a GPU-native terminal for Linux, written in Rust on gpui and alacritty_terminal. It is a real terminal first, with tiling panes, tabs, session restore, and a CRT look you can dial up or down. When a pane is running a coding agent, it reads that agent's own transcript and shows you what the agent is doing, what it has spent, and whether it is waiting on you.
Every page here comes three ways. You pick the one that fits how much time you have.
BriefThe whole idea in under a minute: what it is, what you do with it, and the one key to remember.
StoryThe same idea told through an analogy, for when you want to know why it exists.
TechnicalThe keys, the files, the protocol and the limits, with links to the code.
Pages
Get started
- Install
- First launch
- Keys
Agents
- Agent wall
- Launching an agent
- Attention
- Graveyard
- Usage and vitals
The bench
- Workbench
- Surface protocol
- Comments
Workspace
- Left bar and tasks
- Panes and tabs
- Sticky notes
- Sessions and restarts
The look
- Themes
- Skins
- CRT
- Focus reader
- Text crawl
MCP and scripting
- MCP server
- Agent to agent
- ctl
- Plugins
Reference
- Config files
- Environment flags
- Languages
- Changelog ↗