Customization

Everything in DiceTerm is adjusted through the Settings panel — click the gear icon in the rail, or open it directly from the keyboard. Every change takes effect immediately and is saved to %APPDATA%\DiceTerm\session.json.

Appearance

Themes

DiceTerm ships with five built-in themes. Each one recolors the xterm ANSI palette and the app chrome together, so the terminal content and the window frame always match.

Theme	Feel
Tokyo Night	The default — dark, blue-tinted, easy on the eyes
Tokyo Night Light	The same palette flipped to a light background
Dracula	High-contrast dark with purple and pink accents
Solarized Dark	The classic Solarized base dark palette
Black & Blue	Deep black background with blue highlights

Pick a theme from Settings → Appearance and the change applies instantly. There is no custom-theme editor — themes are defined in code. If you need something different, Tokyo Night and Solarized Dark are good bases to fork from source.

Fonts

DiceTerm reads fonts that are already installed on your system. The available choices are:

Font	Notes
Cascadia Code	Default — includes ligatures
Consolas	Ships with Windows
JetBrains Mono	Install separately
Courier New	Ships with Windows

Font size runs from 8 to 32 (default 14). You can also zoom live with Ctrl+= / Ctrl+- / Ctrl+0 — see the Zoom shortcuts.

Ligatures are off by default. Enabling them applies to new panes only; existing panes keep their current renderer state until you restart or open a new pane.

Cursor

Choose from three cursor shapes in Settings → Appearance:

• Block (default)
• Bar
• Underline

Blinking is on by default. Turn it off if you find it distracting.

Transparency

Setting	Range	Default
Opacity	0.6 – 1.0	1.0 (fully opaque)
Acrylic blur	On / Off	Off
Liquid Glass	On / Off	Off

Acrylic blur uses Windows 11's native blur-behind effect. It requires a restart for the full effect to apply. On Windows 10 it has no effect.

Liquid Glass applies a CSS backdrop-filter frosted glass effect to the app chrome. It can be combined with the opacity slider.

High contrast

Turn on High contrast to boost text legibility if the default theme feels too subtle at your screen brightness.

Layout

Setting	Options	Default
Sidebar side	Left / Right	Left
Sidebar width	160 – 280 px	200 px
Default split	Row / Column	Row
Always on top	On / Off	Off

Default split sets which direction Ctrl+Shift+D splits when you use the generic split shortcut. You can always split in a specific direction with Ctrl+Shift+E (right) or Ctrl+Shift+O (down).

Behavior

Setting	Options	Default
Scrollback	1,000 – 100,000 lines	10,000 lines
Copy on select	On / Off	Off
Show line timestamps	On / Off	Off
Show status bar	On / Off	On
Right-click pastes	On / Off	Off

When Right-click pastes is off, right-clicking opens the context menu (Copy, Paste, Add mark, Split, and more). Turn it on if you prefer the iTerm-style paste-on-right-click flow.

Shells

DiceTerm auto-detects the best shell at startup. The built-in profiles are:

Profile	Executable
Default	Auto-detects pwsh.exe first, then powershell.exe
PowerShell	powershell.exe
PowerShell 7	pwsh.exe
Command Prompt	cmd.exe
Git Bash	bash.exe
WSL	wsl.exe
Custom	Any path you specify

Set your preferred shell in Settings → Behavior → Default shell. The new-tab dropdown lets you open any profile directly. When you split a pane, the new pane inherits the parent pane's shell.

Summon hotkey

The summon hotkey (also called the Quake-mode hotkey) toggles the primary DiceTerm window: if it is hidden or unfocused it comes to the front; if it is already focused it hides.

The default is Ctrl+</kbd> (Ctrl+backtick). You can set it to any [Electron accelerator](https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/accelerator) — for example Alt+SpaceorControl+Shift+N`. Change it in Settings → Behavior → Summon hotkey; the new binding takes effect immediately.

Only the primary window responds to the summon hotkey. Additional windows opened with Ctrl+Shift+N are not affected.

Keyboard

Every command in DiceTerm — splits, zoom, copy mode, broadcast, and more — is remappable. Go to Settings → Keyboard, find the command you want, and record a new accelerator. Your overrides are stored alongside the rest of your settings in %APPDATA%\DiceTerm\session.json.

A small set of shortcuts are fixed and cannot be remapped:

• Ctrl+PageUp / Ctrl+PageDown — previous / next workspace
• Alt+1 … Alt+9 — jump to workspace 1–9
• Alt+Left / Alt+Right / Alt+Up / Alt+Down — focus pane by direction

See the full Keyboard shortcuts reference for the complete list of defaults.