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Themes & Appearance

NyaTerm lets you tune the workspace appearance in fairly fine detail, including UI theme, terminal theme, fonts, and cursor behavior.

UI theme and terminal theme​

In Settings → Appearance, you can configure these separately:

  • UI Theme — controls the app-wide color scheme
  • Terminal Theme — controls terminal colors, or can follow the UI theme

If you just want a quick theme switch, you can also use View → Theme from the top menu.

NyaTerm ships a built-in high-contrast theme named Nya High Contrast, which is well suited for accessibility, bright environments, or screen sharing where stronger contrast helps readability. You can select it like any other UI theme from Settings → Appearance or the View → Theme top menu.

Background image​

In Settings → Appearance, the main window can now use a local wallpaper. The controls are easiest to follow by their exact UI names:

  • Background Image — choose the local file rendered behind the main workspace
  • Image Sizing — choose how the image is shown with cover, contain, stretch, or tile
  • Image Opacity — control how strongly the wallpaper shows through the theme
  • Background Content Opacity — control how translucent workspace panels and content surfaces become

This only affects the main window workspace. Settings and child windows stay solid so forms, dialogs, and secondary windows remain readable.

Fonts and font size​

In Settings → Appearance, you can adjust:

  • Font family — primary font plus multi-level fallback fonts
  • Terminal font size
  • UI font size

NyaTerm includes these built-in fonts:

  • JetBrains Mono
  • Noto Sans SC Variable
  • Inter

System-installed fonts are also listed so you can extend the fallback chain.

System font discovery now runs asynchronously, so you may briefly see Loading system fonts... when opening the font picker. That simply means the app is still collecting installed fonts in the background.

Cursor and ligatures​

Appearance settings also expose terminal details such as:

  • Cursor style — Block / Underline / Bar
  • Cursor blink
  • Font ligatures

If you switch between dark and light themes often, it is worth checking the terminal theme together with keyword highlighting and action links so the overall result stays readable.

Language switching​

NyaTerm currently provides:

  • Simplified Chinese
  • English

You can switch language in either of these places:

  • Settings → General → Language
  • View → Language in the top menu

Panels and workspace appearance​

Besides colors and fonts, the workspace itself can be tuned to match your habits:

  • Left and right panel widths are resizable
  • Split ratios inside a tab are resizable
  • Left and right activity bars can be shown or hidden quickly with shortcuts

These layout states are saved with app settings, which makes it practical to keep a preferred long-term workspace arrangement.

Zoom and quick adjustments​

NyaTerm provides these common shortcuts:

  • Zoom In — Ctrl / Cmd + =
  • Zoom Out — Ctrl / Cmd + -
  • Reset Zoom — Ctrl / Cmd + 0

These are especially useful for demos, screen sharing, or high-DPI displays.