Wave Terminal

This is a community package of Wave Terminal, maintained independently and unaffiliated with the Wave Terminal project. It repackages the official upstream .deb unmodified and follows upstream releases automatically.

Wave is a terminal that lays out its window as a grid of blocks. A block can be a shell session, but it can just as easily be a file preview, a directory listing, a web view, a CPU graph or an AI chat — all in the same tab, all scriptable from the command line through the bundled wsh helper.

• Tabbed, tiled terminal blocks with persistent sessions and workspaces.
• Remote connections over SSH, reading your existing SSH config, with the same block layout applied to the remote machine.
• Inline previews for files, images, Markdown and CSV, plus a directory browser and an editor.
• An embedded web block and system-monitor graphs alongside the shell.
• AI chat blocks against your own provider key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter and compatible endpoints).

Permissions: this package grants network access (SSH and the AI providers), the GPU, notifications and the Secret Service for stored connection secrets. It grants no filesystem access — file open and save go through the portal, and Wave's own data stays inside the sandbox. A few capabilities are not granted by default; enable the ones you need with flatpak override:

• Reuse your existing host SSH keys and config: flatpak override --user --filesystem=~/.ssh:ro dev.commandline.waveterm
• Browse and preview files across your home directory: flatpak override --user --filesystem=home dev.commandline.waveterm
• Serial devices: flatpak override --user --device=all dev.commandline.waveterm

Updates and telemetry: the in-app updater is switched off on first run, because Flatpak installs are updated by Flatpak — re-enable it in Settings if you want the check back. Wave's usage telemetry is left at upstream's default (on) and is a switch in the same Settings panel.

Scope: the built-in local terminal runs inside the sandbox, on the shells the Flatpak runtime provides — not on your host system. Remote (SSH) connections are unaffected and behave exactly as they do elsewhere. Wave's Tsunami widget builder compiles Go on the fly and so needs a Go toolchain, which is not part of this package; the rest of the app does not.