A modern terminal multiplexer for Windows
Built with Tauri, Rust, and xterm.js — with Claude AI integration baked in.
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Windows port of PaneStreet — the native terminal multiplexer with Claude AI integration.
Terminal multiplexers like tmux are powerful but stuck in the 80s. PaneStreet brings multi-pane terminal management into a native desktop app with GPU-accelerated rendering, drag-and-drop window management, 16 built-in themes, and deep integration with Claude AI tools.
No config files. No arcane keybindings to memorize. Just open it and start working.
- Multi-pane layouts — Auto-grid, freeform drag-and-drop, or edge-snap split modes
- GPU-accelerated rendering — Powered by xterm.js with WebGL
- Session persistence — Layout and scrollback history survive restarts
- Process status detection — Know what's running in each pane at a glance
- Directional navigation — Move between panes with
Ctrl Alt Arrowkeys - Shift+Enter support — Native newline insertion for Claude Code and other modern CLI tools
- PowerShell by default — Auto-detects pwsh (PowerShell 7) or falls back to Windows PowerShell
- Three layout modes — Auto-grid for quick setups, freeform for full control, snap-to-edge for tiling
- Maximize / minimize panes — Focus on one task, restore when ready
- Minimized pane pills — Quick access to backgrounded terminals in the footer
- Notification sidebar — Slide-in panel showing terminal alerts in plain language
- Notification rings — Pulsing glow on unfocused panes that need attention
- Mascot notification relay — When you're in the app, the mascot announces alerts from other terminals
- Sidebar metadata — CWD, listening ports, and PR status shown per session
- OSC notification support — Handles OSC 9, 99, and 777 terminal notifications
- Native desktop notifications — Per-status toggle with sound control, throttled to prevent taskbar flash
- Built-in file viewer — Browse directories without leaving the app
- CWD tracking — File browser follows your terminal's working directory
- File preview — Peek at file contents inline
- Open in Explorer — One click to jump to the file system
- Plugin viewer — See installed Claude plugins with version and scope info
- MCP browser — View configured Model Context Protocol servers
- Memory inspector — Browse project-specific and global Claude memory
- Scheduled tasks — Monitor active Claude Code sessions and scheduled tasks
- Config reader — Reads your Claude configuration automatically
- Branch display — Current branch shown in the footer with dirty indicator
- Expandable branch timeline — Drag-resizable footer showing all branches with ahead/behind counts and commit history
- File diff indicators — Green/red +N/-N counts per file in the file browser
- Inline diff highlighting — Added/deleted lines highlighted when viewing changed files
- Interactive companion — An animated robot that lives in the footer, walks around, and reacts to your work
- Contextual awareness — Detects terminal activity (builds, tests, deploys, errors) and comments on what it sees
- Personality-driven easter eggs — Click the mascot for escalating reactions with attitude
- Configurable frequency — Low, medium, or high activity levels, or disable entirely
- 16 built-in themes — Dark, Midnight Blue, Dracula, Nord, Solarized Dark, Gruvbox Dark, Tokyo Night, One Dark, Catppuccin Mocha, Rose Pine, Kanagawa, Everforest, Synthwave 84, Ayu Dark, Horizon, Moonlight
- Custom themes — Full color editor for every UI and terminal color
- Rebindable keyboard shortcuts — Customize every shortcut with conflict detection
Grab the latest .msi or .exe installer from the Releases page.
| Installer | Format |
|---|---|
PaneStreet_x.x.x_x64_en-US.msi |
MSI (recommended) |
PaneStreet_x.x.x_x64-setup.exe |
NSIS installer |
Requires Node.js (18+), Rust, and Visual Studio Build Tools (C++ workload).
git clone https://github.com/ben4mn/PaneStreetWindows.git
cd PaneStreetWindows
npm install
npm run tauri buildThe .msi and .exe installers will be in src-tauri/target/release/bundle/.
npm run tauri devAll shortcuts are rebindable in Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts.
| Action | Default Shortcut |
|---|---|
| New Terminal | Ctrl N |
| Close Terminal | Ctrl W |
| Settings | Ctrl , |
| Toggle Sidebar | Ctrl B |
| File Browser | Ctrl Shift E |
| Maximize Pane | Ctrl Shift Enter |
| Minimize Pane | Ctrl M |
| Restore All | Ctrl Shift M |
| Toggle Layout Mode | Ctrl Shift G |
| Previous Pane | Ctrl Shift [ |
| Next Pane | Ctrl Shift ] |
| Navigate Up/Down/Left/Right | Ctrl Alt Arrow |
| Notifications | Ctrl I |
| Switch to Pane 1-9 | Ctrl 1 - Ctrl 9 |
| Close Panel / Overlay | Escape |
- Shell detection — Automatically prefers PowerShell 7 (
pwsh.exe) > Windows PowerShell 5 (powershell.exe) >cmd.exe. Override with thePS_SHELLenvironment variable. - Shift+Enter — Uses a Windows-native approach to bypass ConPTY limitations. Works with Claude Code and other modern CLI tools.
- Background processes — All polling commands (
netstat,git,gh) run with hidden windows to prevent taskbar flashing. - Notifications — Throttled to prevent rapid taskbar flash on Windows. 5-second cooldown between native desktop notifications.
- File paths — Full support for Windows paths (
C:\Users\...) throughout the UI.
| Layer | Technology |
|---|---|
| Framework | Tauri 2.x |
| Backend | Rust (tokio, portable-pty, git2, keyring, winapi) |
| Frontend | Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS |
| Terminal | xterm.js 6.0 with WebGL addon |
| Shell | PowerShell (auto-detected) via Windows ConPTY |
PaneStreetWindows/
├── src/ # Frontend (HTML/CSS/JS)
│ ├── index.html # App shell
│ ├── css/main.css # Styles + 16 theme definitions
│ └── js/
│ ├── app.js # Core: layout engine, sessions, shortcuts
│ ├── config-panels.js # Settings, themes, plugins, MCPs, memory
│ ├── file-viewer.js # File browser panel
│ └── terminal.js # xterm.js session wrapper
├── src-tauri/ # Backend (Rust)
│ └── src/
│ ├── lib.rs # Tauri command registry
│ ├── pty_manager.rs # PTY spawning, I/O, resize, Shift+Enter
│ ├── cmd_util.rs # Silent process spawning (no console flash)
│ ├── config_reader.rs # Claude config/plugin/MCP reader
│ ├── worktree_manager.rs # Git operations
│ ├── status_detector.rs # Process status detection
│ ├── file_viewer.rs # Directory & file reading
│ └── auth_manager.rs # Keyring-based API key storage
├── cli/ # CLI tool (Unix only)
└── docs/ # GitHub Pages site
Contributions are welcome. Please open an issue first to discuss what you'd like to change.
- Fork the repository
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b feature/my-feature) - Commit your changes (
git commit -m 'Add my feature') - Push to the branch (
git push origin feature/my-feature) - Open a Pull Request
MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute. Attribution required (keep the copyright notice).
Built by ben4mn · Windows port of PaneStreet