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Rebound Terminal

A tabbed, split-pane terminal with its own VT100 grid, command blocks and sessions that come back.

State
In development
Version
1.4.0-alpha.7
As of
2026-10-05

Still in development — nothing to download yet.

The terminal I actually work in. It draws its own VT100/ANSI grid, talks to the pty itself, and is fast enough that scrolling feels like a game rather than a document viewer. It is also the shell band at the bottom of Rebound Retro Studio.

What it does

  • Tabs, split panes and several windows, and the whole arrangement comes back after a restart — windows, tabs, panes, each pane's working directory, and which window had the focus.
  • Command blocks. With shell integration for zsh, bash and fish it knows where a command started and ended, so a failed command is marked as failed instead of leaving you to scroll.
  • ssh panes with a file panel for the far machine, and a status bar that admits when a remote pane has gone quiet instead of showing a stale prompt.
  • Themes switchable at runtime, and scrollback that scrolls by the pixel.
  • Grouped commands and SSH sessions, with foldable, remembered sidebar headers.

Where it actually stands

The current source version is 1.4.0-alpha.7, built and staged on 2026-10-05, not installed. The installed daily-use candidate remains 1.4.0-alpha.6; no public download has been supplied. The v1.3 line is closed, but daily-use scrolling and copying findings remain a gate for the next line.

One defect stays explicit: the outstanding forkpty panic can take down the window. Serialising allocation was a workaround, not proof that the underlying failure is fixed.

Screenshots

Rebound Terminal — screenshot 1 of 3
Rebound Terminal — screenshot 2 of 3
Rebound Terminal — screenshot 3 of 3

What’s next

  • Install and use alpha.7; decide whether the Settings buttons are still too big.
  • Measure copying OMP's own pre-wrapped output and its default TUI under tmux.
  • Close the outstanding forkpty panic and real-agent never-spoke checks.