Alpha CenTauri Terminal

A terminal emulator built on Tauri using Rust and Svelte.

What this project is

This is mostly a hobby project I started when Hyper didn't install cleanly on NixOs. My goal is to implement the functionality of various other terminals that I find useful or fun.

What this project is not

• As fast as Alaccrity
• As feature rich as Hyper
• A Guake style terminal (... yet)

Building and running

1. Follow the Tauri prerequisites
2. Install node modules with npm install
3. run with cargo tauri dev or build with cargo tauri build

Configuration File Locations

• Windows: C:/Users/{$UserName}/AppData/alpha-centauri-terminal/.alphacentauri.config.json
• Linux: ~/.config/alpha-centauri-terminal/.alphacentauri.config.json
• MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/alpha-centauri-terminal/.alphacentauri.config.json

Running the Svelte unit/integration tests on Windows

If the tests fail when exected on a Windows machine, try using the latest version of Powershell. Otherwise refer to this Stack Overflow question

Running the Playwright e2e test

1. Start a dev instance with cargo tauri dev
2. In a separate shell instance, run the test with npm run test:e2e
3. The dev instance will close at the successful conclusion of the test

Note: only working on Windows at the moment and may never work on WebKit runtimes (Linux and MacOS)