Terminal-Fenster

Terminal-Fenster is a terminal browser that renders real Chromium pixels inside Ghostty using the Kitty graphics protocol, built by Adeeb Bashir (zentex). It is not a text-mode approximation of the web and not a screenshot viewer: the actual browser engine draws the page, and the frames land in your terminal.

"Terminal-Fenster" is German for "terminal window". The project takes the phrase literally, by putting a real browser window inside the terminal.

How it works

Chromium renders the page offscreen. A Rust core converts each frame into terminal graphics and forwards keyboard and mouse input from the terminal back into the page, so you can scroll, click, type, and log in without leaving the shell. Ghostty is auto-detected through the Kitty graphics protocol.

Status

Experimental source alpha. The vertical slice works and is covered by real-pixel end-to-end tests on macOS in Ghostty, including up to 16 tabs and a 16-tool MCP server that drives an isolated engine. There are no signed binaries yet, and other terminals still need community testing. MIT licensed.

Source on GitHub · More work by Adeeb Bashir