A shell that follows you around.

Opening the terminal

Press ` (backtick) to slide a shell up from the bottom of the window. Drag the divider to resize. Press the same key again to hide it. Captain’s Deck remembers whether you had it open and brings it back on next launch.

Auto cd on navigation

This is the marquee feature. Every time you change directory in the active pane, Captain’s Deck sends a cd to your shell. Walk the panel; the shell follows. It works the other way too — cd in the shell and the active pane navigates with you (via OSC 7 from your shell’s precmd).

Two cases where the auto-cd stays out of your way:

• While a foreground command is running — we don’t inject cd into a busy stdin, so you can keep navigating the panes while a build runs without it scrambling.
• When the active pane is on a remote provider (SFTP, S3, …). The shell is always local, so a remote path like /var/www would point somewhere different on your Mac.

Toggle the sync globally with the Sync button in the terminal’s header bar.

Per-tab sessions

Each pane tab gets its own shell. Switch tabs and the terminal swaps to that tab’s session — same scrollback, same working directory, same running processes. Close the tab and its shell goes with it.

On by default. If you’d rather have one shared shell across all tabs, untick Per-tab terminal sessions in Settings → General. The change applies on next app launch (swapping mid-session would orphan PTYs).

Your shell

Captain’s Deck respects $SHELL — zsh by default on modern macOS, bash on older systems, whatever you set otherwise. Your existing dotfiles (.zshrc, .bashrc, .config/fish/config.fish, …) load as a normal interactive login shell. Aliases, prompt, environment, all there.

Font size

Resize terminal text without leaving the window:

• Cmd+Option+= — bigger
• Cmd+Option+- — smaller

The terminal font family lives in Settings → Appearance → Terminal font.