TkTerm - Tkinter Terminal Emulator

A fully functional terminal emulator built on Tkinter library - perform all basic commands of a terminal

Under the hood it executes commands using Python's subprocess module and spawn as a thread. Pressing Ctrl-C will terminate current running command. Supports Unix shells (sh and bash) and Window's Command Prompt (cmd.exe) commands.

Features

• Compatible with Windows and Unix systems
• Tabbed Terminal - click & drag to reorder, middle-click to close tab, double-click to rename
• Return Code (RC) of previous run commands is shown at the bottom status bar
• Settings to customise colours, font and cursor shape
• Ctrl-C to kill current running process
• Ctrl-F to search; supports case sensitivity and regex searches
• UP and DOWN arrow keys to cycle between next and previous commands in history
• Unix-like tab completion on files and directories
• Handles multiline commands using caret character ^ or \

Requirements

The Tkinter GUI library is built into Python, so no 3rd party library is required.

Requires at least Python version 3.x and above.

Installation

Get it from Github or PIP package manager

# From github
git clone https://github.com/dhanoosu/TkTerm.git

# From package manager
pip install tkterm

Standalone usage

Navigate to downloaded folder and run script with

cd TkTerm

# Either of these will work
python tkterm
python tkterm/tkterm.py

If package was installed via pip

python -m tkterm

Integration with other Tkinter application

The Terminal is implemented as a Frame widget and can easily be integrated to other Tkinter application by

import tkinter as tk
from tkinter import *
from tkterm import Terminal

root = tk.Tk()

terminal = Terminal(root)
terminal.pack(fill=BOTH, expand=True)

root.mainloop()

If downloaded via github append to system path before import

import sys
sys.path.insert(0, "./TkTerm")
from tkterm import Terminal

Customisation options

Customise Terminal interface by Right-click > Settings...

Note:
Clicking Save config saves setting configuration to a file.
Tkterm will automatically load this file the next time it starts up.

Multiline command

Long lines of command can be broken up using a caret. A caret at the line end appends the next line command with the current command. In Windows the caret is ^, and UNIX is \.

For multiline command to be considered there must be no trailing space after the caret, for example:

• $> ping ^ is considered
• $> ping ^ is not considered

$>> echo I ^
> have apple ^
> and banana
I have apple and banana

Author

Developed by Dhanoo Surasarang

Github: @dhanoosu

Links

• GitHub: https://github.com/dhanoosu/TkTerm