Open Terminal Here — Folder Context Menu

Right-click any folder in Explorer, Finder, Dolphin, Nautilus, Nemo or Thunar and open a Tempest terminal there — on Windows, macOS and Linux.

Right-click a folder in your file manager and choose Open terminal here. Tempest comes to the front with a new local terminal tab already in that folder.

This is a desktop feature. It is not available in Tempest Mobile or in web mode.

Turning it on and off

It is on by default. To change it:

Settings ▸ General ▸ System Integration ▸ Open terminal here

The switch applies immediately — you do not need to click Save changes.

Turning it on or off needs no administrator rights, and turning it off removes the entry completely.

Where to find it

Windows

Right-click a folder, the empty space inside an open folder, or a drive such as C:\.

On Windows 11, click Show more options first — or press Shift+F10 instead of right-clicking. All non-Microsoft apps appear there.

macOS

Right-click a folder and look under Quick Actions (it also appears in the Services submenu).

If it does not show up right after you turn it on, log out and back in.

Linux

Supported in Dolphin, Nautilus, Nemo and Thunar. In Nautilus it lives under right-click ▸ Scripts; in the others it is in the main right-click menu.

Open With ▸ Tempest

You can also hand a folder to Tempest from the Open With menu, or by dropping it on the Tempest icon in the macOS Dock. This works whether or not the context-menu entry above is switched on.

Drop a file instead of a folder and the terminal opens in the folder that contains it.

If it does not appear

After an update, or after moving Tempest — start Tempest once and it fixes itself. If not, switch the setting off and back on.
On Windows 11 — check under Show more options.
On macOS — log out and back in.
You deleted it by hand — that is fine, switch the setting back on to restore it.