mOT

mOT

marc's Opinionated Terminal.
Instant — ⌥ Space anywhere.

CPU-rendered · CoreGraphics · CoreText · libvterm

Download for macOS Free · 0.7 MB · macOS 15+

Pro is for when my defaults aren't yours: it unlocks ~/.mot.yaml so you can swap fonts, colors, opacity, hotkey, etc.

Technology

CoreGraphics

Draws every cell, cursor, and glyph on the CPU.

CoreText

Font loading, glyph shaping, and fallback fonts.

libvterm

Neovim's VT100 / ANSI parser that turns the byte stream into the screen grid.

Grand Central Dispatch

Runs PTY reads and writes off the main thread.

Carbon

Registers the system-wide ⌥ Space hotkey.

Security.framework

Verifies the Pro license locally with RSA.

Sparkle

Code-signed, EdDSA-verified auto-updates.

Cocoa

Windows, tabs, events, and the app shell.

Keyboard

Panel

⌥Space
Show / hide the panel (anywhere)
⌘⏎
Toggle windowed ↔ overlay
⌘⌃F
macOS native full-screen

Tabs

⌘T
New tab
⌘W
Close tab
⌘1–9
Switch to tab N

Find

⌘F
Find across the whole buffer
⏎ / ⇧⏎
Next / previous match
Esc
Close find

Text editing

⌘← / ⌘→
Line start / end
⌥← / ⌥→
Word back / forward
⌘⌫
Kill to line start
⌥⌫
Kill previous word

Selection & clipboard

⌘C / ⌘V
Copy / paste
⌘A
Select all
Double-click
Select word
Triple-click
Select line
⌘⇧←↑→↓
Extend selection
⌘+hover / click
Underline / open URL

Font

⌘+ / ⌘−
Bigger / smaller
⌘0
Reset to default

Scrollback

⇧PgUp / ⇧PgDn
Page up / down
⇧Home / ⇧End
Top / bottom
⌘K
Clear screen & scrollback

Config

Config lives in ~/.mot.yaml, hot-reloaded on save. Editing it is a Pro feature. 

font:
  name: Maple Mono
  size: 14

dark:  # macOS system colors, dark appearance
  background:     #000000
  foreground:     #AAAAAA
  black:          #000000
  red:            #FF453A
  green:          #30D158
  yellow:         #FFD60A
  blue:           #0A84FF
  magenta:        #BF5AF2
  cyan:           #64D2FF
  white:          #FFFFFF
  bright_black:   #8E8E93
  bright_red:     #FF6961
  bright_green:   #30DB5B
  bright_yellow:  #FFD426
  bright_blue:    #409CFF
  bright_magenta: #DA8FFF
  bright_cyan:    #70D7FF
  bright_white:   #FFFFFF

light:  # macOS system colors, light appearance
  background:     #FFFFFF
  foreground:     #1D1D1F
  black:          #000000
  red:            #FF3B30
  green:          #34C759
  yellow:         #FFCC00
  blue:           #007AFF
  magenta:        #AF52DE
  cyan:           #32ADE6
  white:          #B4B4B8
  bright_black:   #8E8E93
  bright_red:     #FF6259
  bright_green:   #34DA62
  bright_yellow:  #FFD426
  bright_blue:    #3395FF
  bright_magenta: #C77DEA
  bright_cyan:    #5AC8FA
  bright_white:   #FFFFFF

general:
  shell:         ""           # empty = $SHELL (login shell)
  hotkey:        opt+space    # global show/hide hotkey
  opacity:       1.0          # 0.0 transparent — 1.0 opaque
  scrollback:    10000        # lines of history per tab (200–100000)
  max_columns:   512          # grid / scrollback width cap (80–512); lower saves memory
  tab_placement: none         # tl, tc, tr, bl, bc, br, or none