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cmux

App Terminal

Terminal built on libghostty. Inherits Ghostty's complete VT parser and standards compliance.

cmux is a terminal built by the Ghostty project, powered by libghostty — the same terminal emulation library that drives Ghostty. Unlike traditional multiplexers (despite the name), cmux is a full terminal application that inherits Ghostty's complete VT parser, renderer, and standards compliance.

Because cmux links directly against libghostty, it supports the same feature set as Ghostty: kitty keyboard protocol, kitty graphics, sixel, OSC 8 hyperlinks, semantic prompts, and full Unicode with grapheme clustering. Its feature score on terminfo.dev should be nearly identical to Ghostty's.

Feature results inherited from Ghostty — this terminal uses the same underlying engine and is not probed separately.

92%
232 passed · 19 failed of 251 features
Tested: April 10, 2026

Character Sets

FeatureSupportNotes
DEC line drawing character set✓ yes
DEC Special Graphics✓ yes
G0/G1 character set switching✓ yes
UTF-8 mode✓ yes

Extensions

FeatureSupportNotes
System clipboard paste? unknown
Font ligatures? unknown
iTerm2 Inline Images (OSC 1337)✓ yes
Kitty graphics protocol✓ yes
Kitty graphics: animation✓ yes
Kitty graphics: display✓ yes
Kitty graphics: transmit✓ yes
Kitty graphics: Unicode placeholders✗ noU=1 didn't render
Kitty keyboard protocol✓ yes
Kitty keyboard: DISAMBIGUATE (flag 1)✓ yes
Kitty keyboard: REPORT_ALL_KEYS (flag 8)✓ yes
Kitty keyboard: REPORT_ALTERNATE (flag 4)✓ yes
Kitty keyboard: REPORT_EVENTS (flag 2)✓ yes
Kitty keyboard: REPORT_TEXT (flag 16)✓ yes
Desktop Notifications (OSC 9/777)✓ yes
VS Code Shell Integration (OSC 633)✓ yes
Icon and title (OSC 0)✓ yes
Icon name (OSC 1)✓ yes
Foreground color query (OSC 10)✓ yes
Reset color palette (OSC 104)✓ yes
Background color query (OSC 11)✓ yes
Reset foreground color (OSC 110)✓ yes
Reset background color (OSC 111)✓ yes
Reset cursor color (OSC 112)✓ yes
Reset pointer fg color (OSC 113)✓ yes
Reset pointer bg color (OSC 114)✓ yes
Reset highlight background (OSC 117)✓ yes
Reset highlight foreground (OSC 119)✓ yes
Cursor color (OSC 12)✓ yes
OSC 133;A prompt start (FTCS_PROMPT)✓ yes
OSC 133;B command start (FTCS_COMMAND_START)✓ yes
OSC 133;C command executed (FTCS_COMMAND_EXECUTED)✓ yes
OSC 133;D command finished (FTCS_COMMAND_FINISHED)✓ yes
OSC 133;P properties✓ yes
iTerm2 Capability Reporting (OSC 1337)✗ noiTerm2-specific protocol not supported
iTerm2 Cell Size Reporting (OSC 1337)✗ noiTerm2-specific protocol not supported
Highlight background (OSC 17)✗ noNo OSC 17 response
Set Wayland app-id (OSC 176)✓ yes
Highlight foreground (OSC 19)✗ noNo OSC 19 response
Window title (OSC 2)✓ yes
Kitty color protocol (OSC 21)✓ yes
Pointer shape (OSC 22)✓ yes
Kitty color stack push (OSC 30001)✓ yes
Systemd context (OSC 3008)✓ yes
Kitty color stack pop (OSC 30101)✓ yes
Color palette (OSC 4)✓ yes
Audio sound (OSC 440)✓ yes
Special color (OSC 5)✗ noNo OSC 5 response
Clipboard access (OSC 52)✓ yes
OSC 52 clipboard read✗ noNo OSC 52 read response
OSC 52 clipboard write✓ yes
OSC 5522 advanced clipboard✗ noNo OSC 5522 response
Screen flash (OSC 555)✓ yes
OSC 633;A prompt start✓ yes
OSC 633;B prompt end✓ yes
OSC 633;C pre-execution✓ yes
OSC 633;D command finished✓ yes
OSC 633;E set commandline✓ yes
OSC 633;P properties✓ yes
OSC 66 text sizing✓ yesConsumed (no query)
VTE termprop (OSC 666)✓ yes
Current directory (OSC 7)✓ yes
Locale query/set (OSC 701)✓ yes
Version query (OSC 702)✓ yes
Set normal font (OSC 710)✓ yes
Scroll view up (OSC 720)✓ yes
Cell size report (OSC 776)✓ yes
Notifications (OSC 777)✓ yes
Font size query/set (OSC 7770)✓ yes
Font + window size (OSC 7777)✓ yes
Hyperlinks (OSC 8)✓ yes
OSC 9;4 progress bar✓ yes
Desktop notifications (OSC 99)✓ yes
Text reflow on resize✓ yes
Semantic prompts (OSC 133)✓ yes
Sixel graphics✗ noSixel image didn't move cursor
Sixel support in DA1✗ noDA1 attrs: 62;22;52 (no sixel)
Sixel geometry report (CSI ? Pi;Pa;Pv S)? unknown
24-bit truecolor✓ yes

Input Protocols

FeatureSupportNotes
Button-Event Mouse (1002)✓ yes
CSI u Key Encoding✓ yes
Kitty click events? unknown
modifyOtherKeys✓ yes
modifyOtherKeys mode 3✓ yes
Pixel Mouse Reporting (1016)✓ yesSGR pixel mouse mode not tracked by ghostty-web WASM backend
urxvt Mouse Reporting (1015)✓ yes
X10 Mouse Tracking (9)✓ yes

Modes

FeatureSupportNotes
Enter alt screen (DECSET 1049)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Exit alt screen (DECRST 1049)✓ yes
Alt-scroll mouse wheel (?1007)✓ yesDECRPM: mode set
Alt screen clear-on-enter (?1047)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Save/restore cursor (?1048)✓ yes
Alt screen legacy (?47)✓ yesBehavioral: ?47 enter/exit accepted
App cursor keys (DECCKM)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Application keypad (DECKPAM)✓ yes
Auto-wrap (DECAWM)✓ yesDECRPM: mode set
Bracketed paste (DECSET 2004)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Mode 2031 color scheme reporting✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
DECCOLM 80/132 column switch (?3)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
DECSCLM — smooth scroll mode? unknown
DECSSCLS — set scroll speed? unknown
Focus tracking (DECSET 1004)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Insert/replace mode (IRM)✓ yes
Left/Right Margins (DECLRMM, Mode 69)✓ yesDECLRMM not tracked by ghostty-web WASM backend
All motion mouse (DECSET 1003)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
SGR mouse mode (DECSET 1006)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Mouse tracking (DECSET 1000)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Origin mode (DECOM)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Reverse video (DECSCNM)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Synchronized output (DECSET 2026)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
UTF-8 mouse mode (?1005)✓ yesDECRPM: mode reset
Pop color palette (CSI # Q)✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive
XTPOPSGR — pop SGR stack (CSI # })✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive
Push color palette (CSI # P)✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive
XTPUSHSGR — push SGR stack (CSI # {)✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive
XTRESTORE — restore DEC private modes (CSI ? Pm r)✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive
XTSAVE — save DEC private modes (CSI ? Pm s)✓ yesSequence consumed; terminal responsive

Reset

FeatureSupportNotes
DECALN screen alignment (ESC # 8)✓ yes
Backend reset() method✓ yescursor at 5;5 after DECSTR
Full reset (RIS)✓ yes
SGR reset clears attributes✓ yes
Soft reset (DECSTR)✓ yes

Scrollback

FeatureSupportNotes
Scrollback accumulates✓ yes
Alt screen separate scrollback✓ yes
DECSTBM constrains scrolling✓ yes
DECSTBM reset to full screen✓ yescursor at row 119 (expected near bottom after DECSTBM reset)
Reverse index (RI)✓ yes
Scroll down (SD)✓ yes
Scroll up (SU)✓ yes
Scroll region (DECSTBM)✓ yes
Total line count✓ yesContent written to scrollback

Unicode

FeatureSupportNotes
East Asian Ambiguous Width✓ yeswidth=1 (ambiguous chars vary by terminal/locale)
Grapheme Cluster Cursor Movement✓ yes
Tab Stops (HT)✓ yes
Wide Char at Line Wrap✓ yes