Black Box Changelog

What's new in Black Box 0.14.0

Jul 18, 2023
  • FEATURES:
  • Added new default Adwaita and Adwaita Dark color schemes
  • You can now customize the working directory for new tabs. It can be set to persist the last tab's directory, the user's home directory, or an arbitrary location
  • Closing a tab or a window that still has a running process will now prompt you for confirmation
  • Black Box now uses the default Adwaita tab style. As consequence, some header bar options, including "Show Borders" have been removed from the preferences window
  • Added the option to disable terminal bell
  • Added option to use bright colors for bold text
  • You can now get a desktop notification when a process completes on an unfocussed tab
  • Context-aware header bar: the header bar can now have special colors when the active tab is running sudo or ssh
  • Added open and copy link options to the right-click menu
  • You can now rename tabs with the new tab right-click menu, or with a new shortcut Shift + Control + R
  • Added a quick application style switcher to the window menu
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Some configuration options have been grouped together in the preferences window
  • Application title is now bold when there's a single tab open
  • Performance and bundle size optimizations
  • Black Box now has more Flatpak permissions to overcome errors reported by users
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue that caused terminals not to be destroyed when their tabs were closed
  • Improved keybinding validation, allowing more valid key combinations to be used
  • The window title is now centered when there's only one tab
  • Sixel is now disabled for VTE builds that don't support it. This primarily affects non-Flatpak users, as all Flatpak builds ship VTE with Sixel support
  • Fixed an issue that caused windows launched with custom commands to not have a title
  • Black Box will now show an error banner if spawning a shell or custom command failed and will no longer close immediately

New in Black Box 0.13.2 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Added support for setting multiple shortcuts for the same action
  • You can now reset one, or all custom shortcuts back to default
  • Added a warning if "Unlimited" scrollback mode is active
  • Bug fixes:
  • Added workaround for an error that would cause Black Box to crash

New in Black Box 0.9.1 (Jul 5, 2022)

  • Changes in version 0.9.1:
  • Use patched VTE to enable copying.