Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display...

Developer toolsQML#retro#qml#qt#macos#linux

4.7 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 14, 2026.

About the project

A terminal emulator that mimics the look and feel of old cathode tube screens. Works on Linux and macOS, customizable via context menu.

Useful for

Launch a terminal with retro effects for an old-school computing atmosphere
Customize colors, fonts, and effects via the context menu
Install the AppImage or dmg to get the latest version quickly

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

106 stars today. The usual pace is 4 per day, so that's 26× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 23× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending today: #18, +98 stars.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 26,218
Stars in a day: 107
Forks: 1,016
Issues and pull requests: 974
Watchers: 325
Language: QML
Latest release: 2.0.0-beta2 · May 31, 2026
Created: November 22, 2013
Last push: May 31, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 13, 2026GitHub Trending today: #18, +98 stars

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