Besides mainstream Windows/macOS/Linux/Android, electerm also supports HarmonyOS, iOS, and older systems — Ubuntu 18, Windows 7, macOS 10+, and special Chinese Linux distributions such as UOS, Kylin, and LoongArch (both old-world and new-world), as well as RISC-V (riscv64) and PowerPC 64-bit little-endian (ppc64le) Linux.
💻 electerm-web — Web app version running in browser (including mobile device)
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Works as a terminal/file manager, ssh/sftp/ftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice client
Support Window 7+(X64/ARM64), HarmonyOS，Android, iOS, Mac OS 10.15+(x64/arm64), Linux(x64/arm64/riscv64/ppc64le/Loong64 new world & old world), 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)
Quick commands/triggers to do predefined tasks and automattic operations
Sync data including bookmarks to github/gitee secret gist/webdav/custom server/electerm cloud
Quick input/mirror input to one or all terminals.
AI assistant integration (supporting multiple LLM API formats — OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Responses, and Anthropic Messages) to help with command suggestions, script writing, and explaining selected terminal content, create bookmarks/themes, and agent mode to directly do terminal operations
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
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.
# May only works in Linux
# needs nodejs/npm, suggest using nvm to install nodejs/npm
# with nodejs 24.x
git clone [email protected]: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 ./src/build/.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
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