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Installing & switching skins

A skin changes what your terminal is — the frame, the chrome, the screen shape — while a real shell keeps running behind the glass.

From the community gallery

The easiest source of skins is the community gallery:

1. Browse the gallery and open a skin you like
2. Click Install in Terminal Candy — the app opens and installs it directly
3. It’s immediately available for cycling and in the picker

You can also browse in-app: Settings (⌘,) → Skins → Get More…

Switching skins

• ⌘] / ⌘[ — next / previous skin, live on the active window. No restart, no reload.
• ⌘N — new window with the skin picker
• Right-click a window → Change Skin

The cycling order follows your list in Settings → Skins — drag rows to reorder it.

Managing your library

Skins live in Settings (⌘,) → Skins:

• Make Default — the skin new windows open with
• Edit — opens the skin in the Skin Builder
• Delete — any skin can go except your last one
• Starter-pack skins are deletable too — it’s your library

On disk, every skin is just a folder in ~/Library/Application Support/Terminal Candy/skins/ (File → Reveal Skins Folder in Finder). Dropping a valid skin folder there installs it — see the skin format.

Trial vs. licensed

The free trial holds up to 5 skin slots. A license ($10 once) removes the cap — unlimited skins, forever.

Effects

Skins can ship visual effects (scanlines, glow, curvature). Toggle them globally in Settings → General → Skin effects; a skin’s own defaults apply when the toggle is on.