vterm

A cross-platform, Vulkan terminal emulator written in Rust.

The project is not usable in its current state and is subject to change a lot.

Project Status

• [x] Windowing
• [x] Rendering pipeline
• [x] Image drawing
• [x] Font drawing
• [x] Custom font loading
• [ ] Layouting for UI layer (Bugged right now)
• [ ] Ptty
• [ ] Handle input
• [ ] Terminal buffer to screen
• [ ] Tabs
• [ ] Draggable / multi window
• [ ] Menus, settings
• [ ] Config

Dependencies

• Vulkan SDK
• Rust nightly

Installation

For detailed installation instructions, please refer to the INSTALL.md file.

Note: Is your platform not supported? Either wait or contribute.

Note: There is a small execution barrier (~200ms) before the terminal opens on NVIDIA cards. This is a driver-related issue. It has something to do with vkCreateInstance and vkCreateDevice being extremely slow on NVIDIA cards. I am hoping to improve it as much as possible, but the biggest overhead lies in the lack of driver optimization. So I think we can expect improvements soon.