QLightTerminal

A simple lightweight terminal widget for Qt6.

Usage

Download the latest QLightTerminal-Pri source and include all files in a sub folder of your project. The widget can be included into your project by adding following line to your .pro file.

include(<path-to-subdir>/QLightTerminal/QLightTerminal.pri);

Afterwards it can be used as followed:

File: main.cpp

#include "libs/QLightTerminal/qlightterminal.h"

MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
    : QMainWindow(parent), ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
{
    ui->setupUi(this);

    QLightTerminal* terminal = new QLightTerminal();
    
    // optional style options
    terminal->setFontSize(10, 500);
    terminal->setBackground(QColor(24, 24, 24));
    terminal->setPadding(8,0);
    terminal->setLineHeightScale(1.25);
    
    setCentralWidget(terminal);
}

Testing

✅ Linux Ubuntu (Ubuntu, ZorinOS)
✅ Arch (Manjaro)
❓ Windows

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License

You can check out the full license here

As stated by the Qt open source premise this project is license under LGPL v3. Since some parts of the project are based on the Suckless Simple Terminal the following files fall under the Mit-License: st.cpp, st.h,st-utils.h.