Everything a local-shell terminal should be, plus the three things that make stdusk worth summoning.
apt, pip, npm, curl, your 3am migration - if it prints N%, the tab wears a progress bar. You glance, you don't watch.
a claude, a gemini, a codex running across your tabs? Each tab tells you which, in its brand colors.
Borderless, top-edge, global hotkey, hide-on-blur. There when you call, gone when you don't. No Dock clutter.
Colored, renameable, reorderable, split-aware. Pixels, not ASCII art - painted by egui.
Cmd+F scrollback search with regex; Cmd+Shift+P command palette, every action two keystrokes away.
Browse 200+ color schemes with live preview, keyboard-navigable, apply before you save.
Named launchers with their own shell, args, cwd, env and tab color. One right-click away.
Push your config to your own private git repo, pull it anywhere. Your credentials, no OAuth middleman.
Truecolor, mouse copy, cwd-aware tabs, bracketed paste, OSC 52 clipboard, session restore. It just works.
Text-grid terminals (tmux, kitty, ghostty) are efficient, but they render tabs as text - they can never look like a GUI. Electron terminals look gorgeous but bill you a few hundred megabytes of RAM for the privilege.
stdusk refuses the tradeoff. egui paints real pixel-perfect tabs. alacritty_terminal drives the grid on the GPU. The whole thing is one native binary that starts instantly and sits quiet until you summon it.
stdin, stdout, stderr - meets dusk. A terminal stream at the faded end of the day. The machine speaks back.
