Appearance & themes

Tessera's own chrome and the terminal are themed separately: the app's appearance settings style the interface around the terminal, and terminal themes style the terminal itself.

App appearance

Under settings → appearance:

• mode — system, dark, or light. Applies to the app chrome only; the terminal uses its own theme.
• chrome material — Liquid Glass options where supported (unsupported ones are hidden).
• accent color — blue, green, amber, or a custom color.
• terminal font size — 10–20 pt with a live preview.
• top bar height — scales the tab strip and icons, with a live preview.

Terminal themes

settings → themes shows a preview-card grid of terminal themes: Void, Graphite, Amber CRT, Paper, Dracula, and Nord.

Background

Each theme's background can be the theme color or a custom image with dim, blur, and fill controls. The background applies to every session unless a host overrides it (host editor → advanced). Full-screen apps that set their own colors (vim, htop) paint over the picture.

Terminal behavior

Under settings → terminal:

• cursor style — block, bar, or underline, with cursor blink and a live preview.
• scrollback lines — 1,000 to 50,000, in steps of 1,000.
• smooth scrolling and glide speed — trackpad momentum, in scrollback only.
• startup → previous connections — the session restore policy.
• the bell section — sound, visual flash, background banner, and a test button; see notifications.