# Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

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

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 26,438 total · +1 star on 2026-09-24 (UTC), ≈ 4 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: QML · Created: 2013-11-22 · Last push: 2026-05-31
- GitHub: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mvanhorn (5,243 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1,028
- Issues and pull requests: 978
- Watchers: 326
- Average over the last week: 7 per day
- Usual pace: 31 per day
- Latest release: 2.0.0-beta2 (2026-05-31)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-13 4.7, 09-14 5.8, 09-15 4.6, 09-16 2.3, 09-17 1.8, 09-18 2.0, 09-19 1.3, 09-20 1.3, 09-21 1.5, 09-22 1.4, 09-23 1.5, 09-24 1.4

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 10:53 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.