Termalime is a Tauri-powered desktop cockpit that fuses a full terminal emulator with an AI chat console. It’s built for developers who constantly bounce between shell sessions and AI prompts—everything lives in a single split-pane workspace with a polished lime-dark aesthetic.
- Split terminal + AI chat: Resizable panes keep shell output and assistant replies side-by-side.
- Persistent sessions: PTY sessions stay alive while you prompt the model, perfect for iterative workflows.
- Hover controls: Copy/delete chat messages instantly via subtle on-hover actions.
- Custom branding: Lime splash screen, dock/taskbar icon, and packaging metadata branded as “Termalime”.
- Linux desktop bundles: One command emits
.deb,.rpm, and AppImage artifacts for distribution.
- Frontend: React + Vite + Tailwind/Tauri styles
- Desktop shell: Tauri 2.x (Rust backend with WebKit WebView)
- Terminal subsystem:
portable-pty+ custom PTY registry for multi-session terminal streams - AI bridge: Streams chat responses from local Ollama models via async reqwest client
npm install
npm run tauri devThis repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the frontend and the Tauri app on Ubuntu.
What it does:
- Installs Node.js and Rust toolchain
- Installs system packages required by Tauri (GTK, WebKit, pkg-config, OpenSSL headers)
- Builds the Vite frontend (
npm run build) - Runs the Tauri build (
npm run tauri build) and uploads any artifacts undersrc-tauri/target/release/bundle
If you want to reproduce the CI environment locally, follow the native deps step (example for Ubuntu) and then run:
npm ci
npm run build
npm run tauri buildLinux tip: if GTK/WebKit headers aren’t detected, prefix dev/test commands with
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH(same forcargo check).
- Splash markup lives in
index.html, styling insrc/index.css. - Runtime window icon logic sits in
src-tauri/src/lib.rs(clonesapp.default_window_icon()so the dock shows the lime badge). - Regenerate icons with
npm run tauri icon ./assets/logo.pngand confirm references insidesrc-tauri/tauri.conf.json.
npm run tauri buildThis runs the Vite build (dist/) and feeds it to the Tauri bundler.
- Install native deps once:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y libgtk-3-dev libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev build-essential curl wget pkg-config libssl-dev- Build the bundles:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH npm run tauri build- Install the
.deblocally:
sudo apt install ./src-tauri/target/release/bundle/deb/Termalime_0.6.0_amd64.debArtifacts land under src-tauri/target/release/bundle/:
deb/Termalime_0.6.0_amd64.deb→ install withaptappimage/Termalime_0.6.0_amd64.AppImage→chmod +xthen run directlyrpm/Termalime-0.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm→ for Fedora/RHEL friends
Adjust bundle.targets or metadata inside src-tauri/tauri.conf.json if you only need specific formats or want to bump versions.
- Interactive AI Code Blocks (Chat → Shell):
- Added dedicated action bar on every shell snippet generated by Lime Copilot:
- ⚡ Run in Terminal: Instantly forwards command to active shell (safeguarded by Preflight modal)
- ✏️ Insert at Prompt: Pastes snippet into shell without auto-executing, allowing argument review
- 📋 Copy Code: Copies clean code snippet to clipboard with instant feedback
- Added dedicated action bar on every shell snippet generated by Lime Copilot:
- 1-Click Output & Error Diagnosis (Shell → Chat):
- Added Explain button in the Context Bar and
Ctrl+Shift+Eshortcut in the terminal - Captures recent terminal output/tracebacks and prompts Lime Copilot to analyze errors and propose exact fixes
- Added Explain button in the Context Bar and
- In-Buffer Terminal Search (
Ctrl+F):- Integrated
@xterm/addon-searchwith floating search bar overlay - Support for incremental find, previous/next match navigation, and case-sensitivity toggle
- Integrated
- PTY & Shell Enhancements:
- Smart CWD Tab Inheritance: new terminal tabs inherit the working directory of the current session
- In-place Tab Renaming: double-click any tab title to rename it
- Truecolor support: enabled 24-bit color output (
COLORTERM=truecolor) for modern CLI tools (bat,eza,starship)
- New Features:
- Eco Impact Tracking: Displays CO₂ and water saved by using local LLMs instead of cloud APIs in the Context Bar and Settings
- Lifetime eco totals with per-session breakdown and reset functionality
- Optimizations & Bug Fixes:
- Fixed terminal output freeze on large data transfers (UTF-8 boundary handling)
- Eliminated chat streaming duplication caused by leaked event listeners; major performance gain on long responses
- Optimized context polling and startup (git branch caching, targeted sysinfo refreshes, IPC batching)
- New Features:
- Ability to create new terminal tabs
- Enhanced Context Bar with CPU/Memory usage
- Export .TXT functionality to saved commands panel
- Optimizations & Security Patches:
- Optimized PTY reader lock contention using asynchronous channel-based batching
- Hardened preflight heuristic checks with command tokenization to prevent bypasses
- Secured git subprocesses by checking execution capability and nullifying stdin/stderr pipes
- Scanned and updated frontend and backend dependencies to patch security vulnerabilities
- Bug Fixes & UX:
- Fixed PTY session and reader thread leaks when closing terminal windows
- Fixed sidebar command button integration to correctly run commands in PTY
- Fixed saved commands panel form visibility toggling when typing new commands
- Added export functionality for saved commands to clean
.txtfiles
- Termaline V0.4.0 is now available for testing on Windows and MacOSX.
- Adds the Context Bar
- Adds a new command panel to CRUD commands
- Brings in a new Auto-reconnect for Models which act strang upon start up (Ministral)
- Minor bug fixes
- Introduces the preflight checker that checks potential malicious commands which are pasted in
- Adds a settings menu for Bot tweaking and visual settings
Please note that this is an alpha version and may contain bugs