Termurion

iTerm2, on Windows. All of it.

A native Windows terminal, written in Rust, that aims at full 1:1 parity with iTerm2: the same settings, the same menus, the same mouse, the same tmux integration, the same Python API.

Why Termurion · Features · Screenshots · How it compares · Architecture · Download · Building · Credits

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Why Termurion

If you live in iTerm2 on a Mac, every Windows terminal feels like a step down. Some have tabs and splits. A few have a drop-down window. None of them has tmux control mode, triggers, the toolbelt, Instant Replay, or iTerm2's mouse.

Termurion does not borrow iTerm2's look. It ports iTerm2's behavior. Every profile setting, global setting, menu item, and feature in iTerm2 is a row in a parity inventory, and each milestone closes rows until they read have. Where iTerm2 has a quirk, Termurion keeps it and writes it down.

• Your Mac settings, as they are. Termurion reads iTerm2's own plist. Profiles, colors, keys, triggers, and arrangements come across without a conversion step.
• Your scripts, unchanged. The stock iterm2 pip package connects to Termurion and works.
• Your muscle memory. iTerm2's menu bar, key actions, and pointer actions, with Ctrl+Shift in place of Cmd (or Ctrl+Alt, your pick). No shortcut uses the Win key.

Features

Terminal Native ConPTY sessions, with the current OpenConsole shipped beside the exe GPU renderer on wgpu, ligatures, box drawing, bidi, and true color Inline images: OSC 1337 File, sixel, the kitty graphics protocol, animated GIFs Every keyboard protocol: CSI u, modifyOtherKeys, and kitty flags with key releases Mouse reporting that works in vim, tmux, and htop, on WSL and native shells Sessions in termurion-host.exe, so shells outlive a crashed window	tmux integration tmux -CC control mode: tmux windows become real Termurion windows and tabs Pause and resume, the tmux dashboard, and option monitors Edits, moves, clipboard, client lists, and persistence The tmux status bar inside Termurion's own status bar Three ways to run tmux on Windows: psmux (recommended for native tmux, no WSL; winget install psmux, https://github.com/psmux/psmux), tmux in WSL, and tmux over ssh Shell > tmux > New psmux Session and New tmux Session in WSL start the first two Native Windows support is tested against psmux 3.3.8, and WSL support against tmux 3.4, with a live suite that drives real servers
Shell integration OSC 133 marks, OSC 7 directories, and the 1337 shell keys A PowerShell script, plus iTerm2's own installer for bash and zsh Command history, recent directories, prompt navigation, and alerts on finish Automatic Profile Switching by host, user, path, and job	Triggers and automation Triggers in iTerm2's stored form, with every action iTerm2 lists Coprocesses, badges, Windows notifications, and idle and output alerts Broadcast input across panes, tabs, and windows Smart Selection and Semantic History, with all of their actions
Windows and sessions Hotkey windows, including the drop-down style Window arrangements in iTerm2's plist form, plus restoration Every window style, Lock Size, Lock Layout, and Undo Close Tab groups, tab themes, pane title bars, transparency, and virtual desktops	Tools The toolbelt with all twelve built-in tools Status bar with every component: clock, git, CPU, memory, network, and more The Composer, Open Quickly, Instant Replay, and Copy Mode Find, Find Globally, Filter, folds, annotations, and named marks
Scripting iTerm2's Python API server, protocol 1.19, on the loopback only Script functions, the expression language, and the Scripts menu The Script Console and the Scripting Inspector imgcat, it2dl, it2copy, and the other utilities, built for Windows	AI, SSH, and the browser AI chat, inline help, and the Cockpit, with Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Ollama Claude Code integration through a cc-status hook iTerm2's SSH integration: the conductor, file transfers, and ssh: URLs A WebView2 browser pane with find, Copy Mode, marks, triggers, and reader mode A password manager on Windows Credential Manager, 1Password, and LastPass

Screenshots

The render test, scripts/acid.py: 24-bit color, half-block pixels, every text style and underline kind, box drawing, braille, wide and combining characters, and links. Run it with python scripts/acid.py (add --loop to repeat). Full-size video.

iTerm2's menu bar, settings window and key bindings, on Windows. The Shortcut Key (iTerm2's Cmd) is Ctrl+Shift by default.

tmux over ssh, with Claude Code in the pane and a busy custom header and status line: 256 colors, bold, and box and block glyphs drawn cell for cell.

How it compares

Termurion is the only Windows terminal we found that has the full iTerm2 set. The deciding feature is native tmux control mode, which no other Windows terminal ships.

	Hotkey window	Shell integration	Triggers	tmux -CC	Reads iTerm2 settings
Windows Terminal	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
WezTerm	With Lua	Yes	Partial	No	No
Tabby	Yes	Partial	No	No	No
Warp	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Termurion	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Architecture

flowchart LR
    subgraph Host["termurion-host.exe"]
        CP["ConPTY<br/>(OpenConsole)"] --> SH["Shells: pwsh, cmd, WSL, ssh"]
    end
    subgraph App["termurion.exe"]
        PTY["Own ConPTY layer"] --> EMU["alacritty_terminal<br/>(patched core)"]
        EMU --> R["wgpu renderer<br/>(glyphon text)"]
        UI["iTerm2 UI<br/>menus, toolbelt, status bar"] --> R
        TMUX["tmux gateway"] --> EMU
        API["Python API server<br/>:1912 loopback"] --> UI
        WV["WebView2<br/>browser pane"] --> UI
    end
    Host <--> PTY
    PL["iTerm2 plist"] --> UI
    Scripts["iterm2 pip package"] <--> API

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• Core. alacritty_terminal 0.26 parses and stores the grid. Termurion carries a small set of patches for marks, row time, folds, image tiles, and blocks. Each patch is listed in crates/alacritty_terminal/TERMURION-PATCHES.md.
• ConPTY. Termurion has its own ConPTY code. The shipped conpty.dll and OpenConsole.exe load from beside the exe, never from the inbox console host by accident.
• Safety. Every program links the C runtime statically and loads its imports from System32 only. Downloads, imports, and escape sequences that can act go through trust gates first.

Download

Get the newest beta from Releases:

• Termurion-<version>-setup.exe installs for your user (no admin) and adds Start menu entries.
• Termurion-<version>-windows-x64.zip runs from any folder.

Windows 10 or 11, x64. Installing shows each installer page. Report bugs in Issues.

Building

Termurion builds on Windows with the MSVC Rust toolchain.

# 1. Fetch the pinned ConPTY package (checked by SHA-256)
.\scripts\fetch-conpty.ps1

# 2. Build
cargo build --release

# 3. Run
.\target\release\termurion.exe

The build copies conpty.dll and OpenConsole.exe next to the exe. The browser pane needs the WebView2 runtime, which Windows 10 and 11 normally have.

.cargo/config.toml sets +crt-static. The build stops if that flag is missing.

Repository layout

Path	What it holds
src/	The app, about 520 modules
src/bin/	termurion, termurion-host, termurion-utils, termurion-git, cc-status, and the probes
crates/	Patched copies of alacritty_terminal, vte, and glyphon
resources/	Shell integration, color presets, tab icons, terminfo, and AI prompts
proto/, schema/	iTerm2's API protocol and the settings schema
docs/parity/	The parity inventory: 1,797 rows across profile, global, and feature settings
docs/acceptance/	One hands-on checklist per milestone
docs/superpowers/	Specs, plans, and rulings for each milestone
tests/	Integration tests and fixtures

Credits and licenses

Termurion is free software under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. See LICENSE.

Termurion stands on these projects:

• iTerm2 by George Nachman, the reference for every behavior. Files copied from iTerm2 (color presets, script templates, AI prompts, tips, and the utilities) are used under iTerm2's GPL v2 or later. See resources/LICENSE.
• alacritty_terminal, vte, and glyphon, under their own licenses in crates/.
• Windows Terminal for ConPTY and OpenConsole. The notices are in resources/conpty/.

Termurion shows every bundled license at runtime, gathered at build time into one list.

_{Built for people who miss iTerm2 every time they sit down at a Windows machine.}