Early development

A terminal for GNOME that puts your tabs where you want them

Pano is a fast, native terminal emulator built with GTK 4, libadwaita and VTE. It keeps everything you know from GNOME Terminal and adds the power-user features it leaves out.

Build from source View on GitHub

Tabs on any side

Place the tab bar at the top, bottom, left or right of the window. On the left and right, tabs become a vertical list, so long titles stay readable even with many tabs open. Change it any time in Preferences → Appearance → Tab Bar Position.

Pano with the tabs shown as a vertical list on the left — The terminal keeps its size in rows and columns when you move the tabs.

Features

Pano builds on the solid base of GNOME Terminal. New features land one at a time; follow them on the roadmap.

Available

Tab bar position

Top, bottom, left or right, with a vertical tab list for the sides.

Available

Profiles

Separate fonts, colors, commands and scrolling settings for each kind of work.

Available

Native GNOME look

GTK 4 and libadwaita, with light and dark styles that follow your system.

Available

Search and links

Search the scrollback with regular expressions and open links and hyperlinks with a click.

Planned

Split panes

Run several terminals side by side in one tab.

Planned

Session restore

Reopen your windows, tabs and working directories after a restart.

Planned

Transparency

Adjustable background opacity for each profile.

Planned

Command notifications

Get notified when a long-running command finishes in a background tab.

Install

There are no packages yet. Build Pano from source; it is tested with GTK 4.24, libadwaita 1.10 and VTE 0.84.

1. Install the build dependencies

Fedora:

sudo dnf install meson ninja-build gcc-c++ gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel \
    vte291-gtk4-devel pcre2-devel libuuid-devel gsettings-desktop-schemas-devel \
    gettext itstool desktop-file-utils libxslt docbook-style-xsl

Debian and Ubuntu:

sudo apt install meson ninja-build g++ libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev \
    libvte-2.91-gtk4-dev libpcre2-dev uuid-dev gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev \
    gettext itstool desktop-file-utils xsltproc docbook-xsl

2. Build and install

git clone https://github.com/aripdcom/pano.git
cd pano
meson setup _build --prefix=$HOME/.local -Dsearch_provider=false -Dnautilus_extension=false
ninja -C _build
ninja -C _build install

If your distribution ships an older VTE, add --force-fallback-for=vte-2.91-gtk4 to the meson setup command to build VTE along with Pano. Pano has not been renamed yet, so it still installs as gnome-terminal.