launch-terminal

A rust crate to launch Terminal windows on macOS, Windows and Linux

Why?

There's a of different terminals out there, and they all have different ways of being launched. This crate aims to provide a simple way to launch a terminal window on any platform.

This is currently used by Aptakube.

Supported Terminals

macOS

• Apple Terminal
• iTerm2
• Warp
• Ghostty
• Kitty
• WezTerm

Windows

• Default Windows Terminal

Linux

• GNOME Terminal
• Konsole
• Kitty
• Ghostty

Do you want to add support for another terminal?

To contribute, you need:

• Install Rust and Node.js
• Clone this repository
• Run npm install
• Run npm run dev

This will start a demo application that will allow you to test the terminal launchers. You can then add support for new terminals by modifying the files in lib folder based on the existing implementations.