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Contour Terminal Emulator

Contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use

  • App
  • GUI
  • TERMINAL
  • Launchable
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Official OARS · imported from upstream · official · May 24, 2026 description in en

Description

Contour is a modern and actually fast, modal, virtual terminal emulator, for everyday use. It is aiming for power users with a modern feature mindset.

Available on all 4 major platforms, Linux, OS/X, FreeBSD, Windows.

GPU-accelerated rendering.

Font ligatures support (such as in Fira Code).

Unicode: Emoji support (-: 🌈 💝 😛 👪 - including ZWJ, VS15, VS16 emoji :-)

Unicode: Grapheme cluster support

Bold and italic fonts

High-DPI support.

Vertical Line Markers (quickly jump to markers in your history!)

Vi-like input modes for improved selection and copy'n'paste experience and Vi-like scrolloff feature.

Blurred behind transparent background when using Windows 10 or KDE window manager on Linux.

Blurrable Background image support.

Runtime configuration reload

256-color and Truecolor support

Key binding customization

Color Schemes

Profiles (grouped customization of: color scheme, login shell, and related behaviours)

Synchronized rendering

Text reflow (configurable via SM ? 2028 / RM ? 2028)

Clickable hyperlinks via OSC 8

Clipboard setting via OSC 52

Sixel inline images

Terminal page buffer capture VT extension

Builtin Fira Code inspired progress bar support.

Read-only mode, protecting against accidental user-input to the running application, such as Ctrl+C.

VT320 Host-programmable and Indicator status line support.

Size indicator on resize.

and much more ...

How to run

org.contourterminal.Contour.desktop

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