ShellBar v1.9.0

ShellBar v1.9.0

Autocomplete

• Inline ghost-text autocomplete uses shell history first, falls back to PATH
• Fixed use-after-free causing invalid UTF-8 ghost text
• Accepts with Right arrow only when cursor has not moved
• Clears on navigation keys (Left, Up, Down, Home, End, etc.)

Button Bar Position

• Configurable: top / bottom / left / right
• Hot-reload via SIGHUP with widget ref safety
• Preferences → Settings page with dropdown

Animations

• Tab slide-in transitions (200ms)
• Resize overlay: terminal dimensions (cols × rows) on window resize
• Zoom-style fade-in/out chip

UI

• New tab button with green accent hover
• Tab pills as true tabs (straight top, curved bottom)
• Tabs aligned to top edge, AdwToolbarView flat style

Command Palette

• Ctrl+P: search shell history + PATH, ranked by usage

Fixes

• Search bar and zoom chip no longer clipped by bottom bars
• g_object_ref/unref safety on toolbar position change

Downloads

• Debian/Ubuntu: shellbar_1.9.0_amd64.deb
• Arch Linux: shellbar-1.9.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
• Fedora/RHEL: shellbar-1.9.0-1.x86_64.rpm

ShellBar v1.8.0

What's New in v1.8.0

Command Palette (Ctrl+P)

• Async PATH indexing via Trie + GTask
• GtkListView with usage-based sorting
• Mouse click + keyboard navigation + Enter to inject

Ghost-Text Autocomplete

• Inline gray suggestion at cursor via Cairo overlay
• Right arrow to accept, queries the same Trie

Button Activity Tracking

• Per-tab button highlight when command runs (PTY activity tracking)
• Auto-deactivates after 5s silence, re-highlights on output
• Cleared on Enter (new command) + tab switch

Help Page

• Keybinding reference in Preferences (GtkStack switcher)

Scroll-Aware Selection

• Selection survives scrolling via screen-absolute coordinates

Other

• About dialog: English text, version 1.8
• Palette popover width constrained to window

ShellBar v1.7.0

v1.7.0

New Features

• Terminal Search (Ctrl+F) — inline search bar with real-time scan through scrollback, match navigation (▲/▼/Enter), centered scrolling, green rounded highlight with 600ms fade-out on click
• Font Zoom (Ctrl+= / Ctrl+-) — resize terminal font in 2px steps with zoom percentage chip overlay
• Toolbar Button Feedback — 200ms CSS flash on click for immediate visual confirmation
• Utility Bar Toggle — green tools SVG icon when active, gray when inactive
• Embedded SVG Icons — drag-handle and tools icons compiled into GResource (no theme dependency)

Fixes

• Drag-and-drop memory safety: deferred rebuild, GTK_IS_WIDGET guards
• Search bar crash on re-open (missing g_object_ref)
• Preferences dialog: flat card borders, extra label padding
• Search bar CSS: dark translucent background, rounded entry borders

What's Changed

See commits

ShellBar v1.6.0

ShellBar v1.6.0

What is ShellBar?

ShellBar is a configurable command-bar terminal emulator for Linux, built on libghostty-vt. It centralizes your most frequently used commands into a dedicated action bar, turning them into instant one-click shortcuts.

Installation

Fedora / RHEL:

sudo dnf install https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/download/v1.6.0/shellbar-1.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Debian / Ubuntu:

curl -LO https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/download/v1.6.0/shellbar_1.6.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i shellbar_1.6.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Arch Linux:

curl -LO https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/download/v1.6.0/shellbar-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
sudo pacman -U shellbar-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Build from source:

git clone https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar
cd shellbar
cmake -B build -G Ninja
cmake --build build
./build/shellbar

Packages included

• shellbar-1.6.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst — Arch Linux

.deb and .rpm packages can be built from source using ./build-release.sh 1.6.0 on the respective distros.

See https://rendergraf.github.io/shellbar/

ShellBar v1.5.0

What's new in v1.5.0

• Mouse tracking forwarding — Interactive TUI tools (btop, htop, nvim, lazygit, etc.) now receive mouse events when they enable terminal mouse tracking. Clicking, dragging, and selecting inside TUI applications works correctly.
• PWD-based tab titles — Tabs now show the current working directory basename (e.g., "FRONT-10227") instead of "Terminal". Names longer than 16 chars are truncated with a leading ellipsis ("...PROJECT-NAME"). Falls back to /proc/<pid>/cwd when the shell doesn't emit OSC 7.
• Updated project description — README and GitHub Pages now clearly position ShellBar as a developer productivity tool for monorepos and multi-environment projects.
• Right-click and middle-click forwarding — Both right-click and middle-click events are also forwarded to the PTY when mouse tracking is active.

See rendergraf.github.io/shellbar for full documentation.

ShellBar v1.4.0

ShellBar v1.4.0

Terminal emulator with configurable command toolbar — built on Ghostty's VT engine.

What's new in this update

• New app logo — complete rebranding with updated icon, favicon, and logo across all assets
• All icons regenerated at all resolutions (16-256px)
• Favicon and website logo updated on GitHub Pages

Features

• Configurable toolbar buttons from ~/.config/shellbar/config
• Mouse text selection with copy/paste (Ctrl+Shift+C/V)
• Multiple tabs with independent shells
• Configurable keybinds
• URL detection with Ctrl+Click to open
• Drag-and-drop reorder in Preferences dialog
• Utility bar for TUI tools (btop, htop, lazygit, etc.)
• iOS-style toggle switches for toolbar and utility bar
• Right-click context menu
• Dynamic tab titles
• Infinite scrollback
• Cairo + Pango rendering
• Hot-reload config via SIGHUP
• Wayland and X11 compatible

Install

curl -LO https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/download/v1.4.0/shellbar_1.4.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i shellbar_1.4.0_amd64.deb

Website · README

ShellBar v1.3.1

What's New in v1.3.1

• New brand logo — complete rebrand with a new icon across the entire app
• Updated all icon assets at every size (16×16 through 256×256) and SVG
• New favicon set for the website (favicon.ico, 16/32/48/64 PNG, apple-touch-icon)
• GitHub Pages updated with the new logo and favicons

ShellBar v1.3

What's New in v1.3

• Utility bar — auto-detects installed TUI tools (btop, htop, lazygit, vim, tmux, etc.) and launches them in the active terminal, with a vertical sidebar toggle
• iOS-style toggle switches — Cairo-drawn animated switches for toolbar and utility bar
• Improved keyboard focus — capture-phase key handler ensures keystrokes reach the terminal even after tab close or dialog interaction
• Minimum terminal size (80×24) enforced so tools like btop always fit
• Focus re-grab deferred to idle/timeout after tab close operations

See https://rendergraf.github.io/shellbar/ for full details.

ShellBar v1.2

ShellBar v1.2 — Mouse & Selection Overhaul

Ghostty-like terminal emulator with a configurable workflow toolbar for Linux.

ShellBar is NOT a fork — it uses libghostty-vt as a library via CMake FetchContent.

What's new in v1.2

• URL hover underline with pointer cursor and "Ctrl+Click to open" tooltip
• I-beam cursor for text selection areas
• Copy-on-select — automatically copies when drag selection ends
• Middle-click paste support
• Double-click word select, triple-click line select
• Shift+Click and Shift+Arrow keys extend selection
• Ctrl+Shift+C/V/A copy/paste/select-all — plain Ctrl+C always sends SIGINT
• Smooth animated auto-scroll to bottom on Enter key
• Drag-and-drop reorder in preferences with grip handle, opacity feedback, and drop highlight
• AdwWindow + AdwHeaderBar styling for Preferences and Edit dialogs — matching About dialog
• Theme system extended — toolbar colors from theme variables
• Fix: default keybinds load correctly even without config file
• Fix: modal dialogs no longer steal keyboard focus from terminal

Install

curl -LO https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/latest/download/shellbar_1.2_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i shellbar_1.2_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Website · README

ShellBar v1.1

ShellBar v1.1 — Workflow Terminal

Ghostty-like terminal emulator with a configurable workflow toolbar for Linux.

ShellBar is NOT a fork — it uses libghostty-vt as a library via CMake FetchContent, with no patches or upstream modifications.

What's new in v1.1

• Custom tab bar — inline tabs with toggle buttons, close buttons, and smooth scrolling
• Bottom toolbar — toolbar slides up from the bottom with revealer animation via toggle button
• Theme system — custom terminal color palette support via sb_theme
• Menu opens upward — hamburger menu popover opens upward instead of downward
• About dialog — now includes the ShellBar logo
• Screenshots — added to README and landing page

Install

curl -LO https://github.com/rendergraf/shellbar/releases/latest/download/shellbar_1.1.0_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i shellbar_1.1.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Website · README