#light #white #replace #terminal #lighting #video #screen

app termlight

Whiten up your terminal to use as a cheap key/fill light replacement for video conferencing

3 releases (stable)

1.1.0 Mar 5, 2024
1.0.0 May 7, 2021
0.2.0 Mar 24, 2021

#1233 in Command line utilities

Apache-2.0

29KB

termlight 🧑‍💻💡

build status crates.io Apache 2.0 license

A bare-bones terminal app that displays an all-white screen. Intended to be run on a secondary monitor (or two) during video calls as a cheap key/fill light.

Tested on a few Linux and Windows terminals and should work on any terminal/OS combination supported by crossterm.

screencast

Installation

Via Cargo:

$ cargo install termlight

Usage

Just run the binary from your terminal:

$ termlight

Press nearly any key to exit. For maximum effect, turn up the brightness of your monitors.

Alternatives

  • Open about:blank or any predominantly-white page in your browser
  • Buy a real lighting setup

Disclaimer

This is not an officially supported Google product

Dependencies

~0.8–5.5MB
~20K SLoC