Features

• Added new default Adwaita and Adwaita Dark color schemes
• You can now customize the working directory for new tabs. It can be set to persist the last tab's directory, the user's home directory, or an arbitrary location
• Closing a tab or a window that still has a running process will now prompt you for confirmation
• Black Box now uses the default Adwaita tab style. As consequence, some header bar options, including "Show Borders" have been removed from the preferences window
• Added the option to disable terminal bell
• Added option to use bright colors for bold text
• You can now get a desktop notification when a process completes on an unfocussed tab
• Context-aware header bar: the header bar can now have special colors when the active tab is running sudo or ssh
• Added open and copy link options to the right-click menu
• You can now rename tabs with the new tab right-click menu, or with a new shortcut Shift + Control + R
• Added a quick application style switcher to the window menu

Improvements

• Some configuration options have been grouped together in the preferences window
• Application title is now bold when there's a single tab open
• Performance and bundle size optimizations
• Black Box now has more Flatpak permissions to overcome errors reported by users

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused terminals not to be destroyed when their tabs were closed
• Improved keybinding validation, allowing more valid key combinations to be used
• The window title is now centered when there's only one tab
• Sixel is now disabled for VTE builds that don't support it. This primarily affects non-Flatpak users, as all Flatpak builds ship VTE with Sixel support
• Fixed an issue that caused windows launched with custom commands to not have a title
• Black Box will now show an error banner if spawning a shell or custom command failed and will no longer close immediately

Features

• Added support for setting multiple shortcuts for the same action
• You can now reset one, or all custom shortcuts back to default
• Added a warning if "Unlimited" scrollback mode is active

Bug fixes

• Added workaround for an error that would cause Black Box to crash

Features

• New Scrollback Mode allows you to set scrollback to a fixed number of lines, unlimited lines, or disable scrollback altogether
• Allow setting font style (regular, light, bold, etc)

Improvements:

• Updated French, Italian, and Turkish translations

Bug fixes

• Added missing "Open Preferences" shortcut to help overlay
• Header bar and tabs are now properly colored when the app is unfocussed
• Fixed regression in window border color when "Show Borders" is enabled
• Window border is no longer displayed when Black Box is docked left, right, or maximized
• Improved keybinding validation, allowing more valid key combinations to be used
• Tab navigation shortcuts now work as expected
• Fixed default "Reset Zoom" keybinding
• Fixed issue that prevented development builds of Black Box from running when installed via Flatpak

The latest version of Black Box brings much awaited new features and bug fixes.

Features

• Customizable keyboard shortcuts
• Background transparency
• Customizable cursor blinking mode
• Experimental sixel support

Bug fixes

• Manually set VTE_VERSION environment variable - fixes compatibility with a few terminal programs
• Copying text outside the current scroll view now works correctly
• Scrolling with a touchpad or touchscreen now works as intended

Features:

• Added Turkish translation

Improvements:

• UI consistency
• Clear selection after copying text with easy copy/paste

Bug fixes:

• Text selection was broken

Features:

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation

Improvements:

• Updated French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Swedish translations

Bug fixes:

• Flatpak CLI 1.13>= had weird output

Features:

• Added support for searching text from terminal output
• Open a new tab by clicking on the header bar with the middle mouse button
• Customizable number of lines to keep buffered
• Added option to reserve an area in the header bar to drag the window
• Added Spanish translation

Improvements:

• UI tweaks, including the addition of toggle-able borders around the window and tabs
• Theme integration now uses the red, green, blue, and yellow colors from your terminal color scheme to paint the rest of the app
• Theme integration now uses a different approach to calculate colors based on your terminal theme's background color. This results in more aesthetically pleasing header bar colors

Bug fixes:

• The primary clipboard now works as intended
• The "Reset Preferences" button is now translatable
• Lower CPU usage, thanks to an updated version of VTE
• Fix right-click menu spawn position - closes
• Fix long loading times

Features:

• Use ctrl + click to open links

Updates:

• Updated translations
• Added Simplified Chinese translation
• Black Box now sets the COLORTERM env variable to truecolor

Features:

• Black Box will set the BLACKBOX_THEMES_DIR env variable to the user's Black Box theme folder

Bugs:

• Fix opaque floating header bar
• User themes dir is no longer hard-coded and will be different for host install vs Flatpak

Features:

• The preferences window has a new layout that allows for more features/customization to be added
• Added support for the system-wide dark style preference
• Users can now set a terminal color scheme for dark style and another for light style
• Black Box now uses the new libadwaita about window
• New themes included with Black Box: one-dark, pencil-dark, pencil-light, tomorrow, and tommorrow-night
• Black Box will also load themes from `~/.var/app/com.raggesilver.BlackBox/schemes`
• You can customize which and how your shell is spawned in Black Box

Deprecations:

• The Linux and Tango color schemes have been removed
• All color schemes must now set `background-color` and `foreground-color`

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that prevented users from typing values in the preferences window
• Middle-click paste will now paste from user selection
• Color scheme sorting is now case insensitive
• Long window title resizes window in single tab mode
• Drag-n-drop now works with multiple files
• Improved theme integration. Popovers, menus, and lists are now properly styled according to the user's terminal color scheme

Features:

• Improved German translation
• Added Czech translation
• Added Russian translation
• Added Swedish translation

Bug fixes:

• Black Box now sets the TERM_PROGRAM env variable. This makes apps like neofetch report a correct terminal app in Flatpak
• "Remember window size" will now remember fullscreen and maximized state

Features:

• New single tab mode makes it easier to drag the window and the UI more aesthetically pleasing when there's a single tab open
• Added middle-click paste (only if enabled system-wide)
• Added French translation
• Added Dutch translation
• Added German translation

Bug fixes:

• Buttons in headerbar are no longer focusable
• Labels and titles in preferences window now follow GNOME HIG for typography
• Disable unimplemented `app.quit` accelerator

Use patched VTE to enable copying.

Features:

• Added cell spacing option
• i18n support

Bug fixes:

• Fixed floating controls action row cannot be activated
• New custom headerbar fixes unwanted spacing with controls on left side
• Flathub builds will no longer have "striped headerbar"
• A button is now displayed in the headerbar to leave fullscreen

Removed more unnecessary Flatpak permissions.

Removed unnecessary Flatpak permissions.

New features:

• Display scrollbars and overlay scrolling
• Shortcuts window
• Toggle-able menu button
• Reset all settings
• You can now add padding around the terminal
• Floating controls in headerbar-less mode
• Customizable cursor shape
• Full screen mode
• Keyboard based tab navigation
• Command line options

Initial port to Gtk 4. This is an alpha release that has known bugs and lacks support for copying text from the terminal. (renamed from 42.alpha0)

Updated icon, better Software app description, improved GitLab README, and bug fixes.

• New terminal tabs and windows are now correctly focussed

First public release.