bunnysayzz/sideterminal

SideTerminal is a macOS app that gives you a terminal window hidden along the edge of your screen. Move your mouse to that edge and the terminal slides into view, move away and it slides back out of sight. The important part is that hiding the terminal never stops what is running inside it, so long builds, remote SSH connections, or a Claude command line session keep going for hours even while the window is out of view. The app can hold up to ten separate terminal sessions at once, each with its own scrollback history and running programs, and you can switch between them instantly from a shelf. It is smart about not hiding itself while you are actively typing, selecting text, dragging, or scrolling. It lives in the menu bar rather than the Dock by default, keeping things uncluttered, and remembers your working folder across restarts. Settings cover general behavior, sidebar position, appearance, and more advanced options, and changes apply right away without needing a restart. You can record your own keyboard shortcut to show or hide the terminal, and the app will refuse a shortcut combination that is already taken by something else. To install, you download a disk image from the Releases page and drag the app into Applications. Because the app is open source and not signed with a paid Apple developer account, macOS will block it the first time you open it, and the README explains the one command needed to allow it, or the equivalent step in System Settings. It requires macOS 14 or later on Apple Silicon Macs. You can also build it yourself from source using the provided scripts, which requires Apple's Command Line Tools. The project is released under the MIT license and includes some third-party open-source components.