Open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client(Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, HarmonyOS, iOS).
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).
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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/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) - 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 🇧🇷 🇷🇺 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇭🇰 🇯🇵 🇸🇦 🇩🇪 🇰🇷 🇮🇩 🇵🇱 Multi-language support(electerm-locales, contributions/fixes welcome)
- Double click to directly edit (small) remote files.
- All kind of auth methods: publicKey, password, ssh agent, certificates, otp, netbird etc.
- Support Zmodem(rz, sz), and Trzsz(trz/tsz).
- Support ssh related features: tunnel, connection hopping.
- Customizable UI: themes, background image, transparent window(Mac, win).
- Global/session proxy.
- 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 openAI compatible API) 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://192.168.2.31:34554orssh://user@host:22- see Deep link support wiki - Command line usage: check wiki
- 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, orsnaprelease may not work, you can try thetar.gzor.appImagerelease. - 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
aptcommand
Check https://repos.electerm.org/deb
- Install from npm
npm i -g electerm
- 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 electermagain. - If use Snap or some other distribution system, these systems may provide upgrades.
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Know-issues
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/wiki/Troubleshoot
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.
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# May only works in Linux
# needs nodejs/npm, suggest using nvm to install nodejs/npm
# with nodejs 24.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 fixnpm run b
npm run prepare-test
cp ./build/.sample.env ./.env
# edit .env, fill your test host/username/password, may only works in mac OS
npm run test# 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 --arm64Visit Releases.
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