diff --git a/src/dlangide/ui/outputpanel.d b/src/dlangide/ui/outputpanel.d
index 1c04557..ccc6098 100644
--- a/src/dlangide/ui/outputpanel.d
+++ b/src/dlangide/ui/outputpanel.d
@@ -185,6 +185,8 @@ class OutputPanel : DockWindow {
         //if (!term.create()) {
         //    Log.e("Cannot create terminal device");
         //}
+        _terminalWidget.write("\n\n\n\nDevice: "d ~ toUTF32(_terminalWidget.deviceName));
+        _terminalWidget.write("\x1b[0m\nnormal text\n"d);
         return _tabs;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/dlangide/ui/terminal.d b/src/dlangide/ui/terminal.d
index ba1e3bc..738e159 100644
--- a/src/dlangide/ui/terminal.d
+++ b/src/dlangide/ui/terminal.d
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ class TerminalWidget : WidgetGroup, OnScrollHandler {
     }
 
     /// returns terminal/tty device (or named pipe for windows) name
-    @property string deviceName() { return _device ? _device.name : null; }
+    @property string deviceName() { return _device ? _device.deviceName : null; }
 
     void scrollTo(int y) {
         _content.scrollTo(y);
@@ -522,6 +522,11 @@ class TerminalWidget : WidgetGroup, OnScrollHandler {
         return true;
     }
 
+    void handleInput(dstring chars) {
+        import std.utf;
+        _device.write(chars.toUTF8);
+    }
+
     private dchar[] outputChars;
     // write utf32
     void write(dstring chars) {
@@ -709,7 +714,7 @@ class TerminalDevice : Thread {
         Log.d("TerminalDevice threadProc() enter");
         version(Windows) {
             while (!closed) {
-                Log.d("Waiting for TerminalDevice client");
+                Log.d("TerminalDevice -- Waiting for client");
                 if (ConnectNamedPipe(hpipe, null)) {
                     // accept client
                     Log.d("TerminalDevice client connected");
@@ -743,7 +748,7 @@ class TerminalDevice : Thread {
     bool write(string msg) {
         if (!msg.length)
             return true;
-        if (!closed)
+        if (closed || !started)
             return false;
         version (Windows) {
             for (;;) {