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PinTerm for Mac

Compact desktop terminals living in the menu bar, each backed by Ghostty's Metal rendering and a real PTY session.

By taotao7. Free and open source, MIT licence.

Get it with OpenDMG View source on GitHub

PinTerm at a glance

Version
0.4.2
Released
9 September 2026
Download size
5.8 MB
Works on
Apple silicon
Licence
MIT
Category
Developer Tools
Developer
taotao7
GitHub stars
11

How to install PinTerm on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for PinTerm and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.4.2 from taotao7's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to PinTerm show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: PinTerm-0.4.2-macos-arm64.zip (5.8 MB).

What is new in PinTerm 0.4.2

## Changes

- Add **Selected Widget: Edit Launch Settings…** to update an existing widget’s working directory, command, and independent Ghostty configuration.
- Validate the directory and Ghostty configuration before restarting, then require explicit confirmation before ending the current terminal tasks.
- Preserve the widget name, position, size, font size, opacity, and always-on-top state across the restart.

## 中文说明

- 新增 **当前组件：编辑启动设置…**，可修改已有组件的工作目录、命令和独立 Ghostty 配置。
- 重启前会验证目录及 Ghostty 配置，并再次确认后才结束当前终端任务。
- 重启后保留组件名称、位置、大小、字号、透明度和置顶状态。

## Upgrade

```sh
brew update && brew upgrade --cask taotao7/tap/pinterm
```

Apple Silicon / macOS 13+. Ad-hoc signed, not notarized.

Verified with 13 tests and the native AppKit/Metal/PTY workflow. The edit-and-restart flow and dialog rendering were exercised and visually inspected; packaged resources, signature, bundle version, source archive, and SHA-256 checksums were verified.

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