xterm

Fork of TerminalStudio/xterm.dart with mobile fixes and rendering improvements. Maintained by Unix Shells.

https://github.com/unixshells/xterm-dart

Fast, fully-featured terminal emulator widget for Flutter. Works on mobile and desktop.

Changes from upstream

• Cursor blinking
• Context menu on long press (copy/paste)
• AOSP keyboard delete handling fix
• Escape parser fixes (clearAltBuffer, restoreCursor)
• Underline and strikethrough rendering offset fixes
• Scroll position tracking fix
• Better character width measurement
• Removed MediaQuery padding (for embedded use)
• Flutter API deprecation fixes

Features

• Works out of the box, no special configuration required
• Renders at 60fps
• Wide character support (CJK, emojis)
• IME support
• Customizable themes (changeable at runtime)
• Mobile and desktop support
• Frontend independent terminal core

Getting started

Add to pubspec.yaml:

dependencies:
  xterm:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/unixshells/xterm-dart.git

Create and display a terminal:

import 'package:xterm/xterm.dart';
import 'package:xterm/flutter.dart';

final terminal = Terminal();

terminal.onOutput = (output) {
  print('output: $output');
};

// In your widget tree:
child: TerminalView(terminal),

Write to the terminal:

terminal.write('Hello, world!');

License

Copyright (c) 2020 xuty, (c) 2026 Unix Shells. MIT license. See LICENSE.