which-terminal

A cross-platform Rust library for detecting the current terminal emulator and its version.

Features

• 🚀 Fast detection - Environment-based detection with minimal overhead
• 🌍 Cross-platform - Supports Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
• 📦 Zero dependencies - No external dependencies for core functionality
• 🔍 20+ terminals - Detects popular terminal emulators across all platforms
• 📝 Version info - Retrieves version information when available
• 🦀 Pure Rust - Written entirely in Rust with idiomatic APIs

Supported Terminals

Windows

• Windows Terminal
• Command Prompt (cmd.exe)
• PowerShell
• ConEmu
• Cmder

macOS

• Terminal.app (Apple Terminal)
• iTerm2

Linux

• GNOME Terminal
• Konsole
• XTerm
• Rxvt
• Terminator
• Tilix

Cross-platform

• Alacritty
• Kitty
• Hyper
• WezTerm
• Tabby

Android

• Termux

Installation

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
which-terminal = "0.1"

Quick Start

fn main() {
    println!("{:#?}", which_terminal::which_terminal());
}

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

Adding New Terminals

To add support for a new terminal:

1. Add the terminal variant to the Terminal enum in src/types.rs
2. Add detection logic to the appropriate platform module
3. Add version extraction if available
4. Update documentation and tests

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

• Inspired by various terminal detection libraries in other languages
• Thanks to all terminal emulator developers for providing detection mechanisms

Related Projects

• term - Terminal formatting library
• console - Terminal and console abstraction
• crossterm - Cross-platform terminal manipulation