Terminal window carousel generator

The terminal window carousel puts your session inside a proper desktop window, complete with the three traffic light buttons and a title bar. It reads as a screenshot somebody took, which is why it fits a build log or a release note.

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Size

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Brand name

Handle

Accent

Logo

Slides5/35

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Bluesky4
X (Twitter)4
Instagram10
Facebook20
LinkedIn20
Threads20
TikTok35

5 slides is over the limit on Bluesky (4) and X (Twitter) (4). Those posts get rejected rather than trimmed, so hide or remove some, or split the carousel across more than one post.

Cover

Your brand— zsh

# checklist

→Run these 3 checks before you publish

The ones I skip are always the ones that flop.

3 steps in this session

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 1

Your brand— zsh
➜ ~ check 1
Open with something specific
# A vague first line loses the swipe.
➜
@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 2

Your brand— zsh
➜ check 1
➜ ~ check 2
One idea per slide
# If it needs two sentences, split it in two.
➜
@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 3

Your brand— zsh
➜ check 1
➜ check 2
➜ ~ check 3
Read it back at thumbnail size
# Unreadable when small means invisible in a feed.
➜
@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Call to action

Your brand

your turn

Save this before your next post

Then start at the first slide and work down.

save this★

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Save cue

This carousel lives in this browser. An account keeps it.

Everything you have typed here is stored on this device only, so it is gone the moment you clear your browser or switch to your phone. With a PublishQ account it belongs to you instead:

Your carousels are saved, so you can come back and edit them.
The images you upload stay in your media library.
Your logo is stored once and reused on every carousel.
Brand name, handle, and colours stop being retyped.
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The window frame is the credibility

A bare shell can look like a design choice. A window with a title bar looks like something that happened on a machine, and that small difference makes a build log feel documented rather than decorated.

It also gives the deck a frame that survives being reposted. When the slide gets screenshotted into somebody else's story, the window is still obviously a terminal, so the context travels with it.

Good subjects for a windowed session

Release notes, migrations, debugging sessions and setup guides all work. Anything with a before and an after works especially well, because the window can show the state changing across slides while the frame stays put.

Put your brand in the title bar and leave the session itself clean. Readers forgive a logo on the chrome, and they get annoyed when the content area is decorated.

Before you export

Keep the session narrow. Wrapped lines break the illusion of a real window.
Use the title bar for the project name so every slide is attributable.
Show the state changing across slides rather than restating it in words.
Save the passing test or clean build for the final slide.

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A swipeable post where every slide is a desktop terminal window: title bar, traffic light buttons, and a session inside that advances one step per slide.

The plain terminal fills the slide with the shell itself. This one puts that shell inside a window on a desktop background, which reads more like a screenshot and leaves room for your project name in the title bar.

That is one of its best uses. Each slide takes one change, and the window frame makes the sequence feel like a record instead of an ad.

Yes, at 4:5 portrait. Keep the lines short, because monospaced text that wraps is the fastest way to make a window look wrong on a phone.

No. Every slide exports clean at full resolution, free, with no account needed.

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