A GPU-accelerated terminal workspace manager for Linux, powered by Ghostty's rendering engine. A special thanks to the cmux contributors who inspired this build.

If you are on Mac, please visit https://github.com/manaflow-ai/cmux to download the original.

• GPU-rendered terminals via embedded Ghostty (OpenGL)
• Workspaces with folder-based naming, persistence across restarts, and sidebar management
• Split panes (horizontal/vertical) with keyboard navigation
• Tabbed terminals within each pane
• Built-in browser (WebKitGTK)
• Right-click context menu with copy, paste, split, clear
• Drag-and-drop workspace reordering with favorites/pinning
• Animated sidebar collapse/expand

Download the latest release from GitHub Releases.

Debian/Ubuntu (.deb) — recommended:

sudo dpkg -i ./limux_0.1.6_amd64.deb

AppImage — portable, no install needed:

chmod +x Limux-0.1.6-x86_64.AppImage
./Limux-0.1.6-x86_64.AppImage

Tarball — manual install:

tar xzf limux-*-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cd limux-*-linux-x86_64
sudo ./install.sh

Arch Linux (unofficial AUR package) — community-maintained by antonbarchukov:

yay -S limux-bin

The AUR package is available at limux-bin. Thanks to antonbarchukov for packaging Limux for Arch users. Arch packaging is not currently maintained by upstream; please report AUR packaging issues to the package maintainer first. See issue #5.

To uninstall:

# deb
sudo apt remove limux

# tarball
sudo ./install.sh --uninstall

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install libgtk-4-1 libadwaita-1-0 libwebkitgtk-6.0-4

• Rust toolchain (stable)
• GTK4, libadwaita, WebKitGTK dev packages
• Pre-built libghostty.so (included in releases, or build from the Ghostty submodule with Zig)

# Install dev dependencies (Ubuntu/Debian)
sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev libadwaita-1-dev libwebkitgtk-6.0-dev pkg-config build-essential

# Build
cargo build --release

# Run (point to libghostty.so location)
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../ghostty/zig-out/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH ./target/release/limux

./scripts/package.sh

This builds the binary, bundles libghostty.so, icons, and an install script into a tarball.

Run the canonical local quality gate before committing:

./scripts/check.sh

Repository maintainability rules live in docs/maintainability.md.

Most default shortcuts use Ctrl. Fullscreen defaults to F11. Custom remaps may also use Cmd, which Limux maps to either the Linux Meta or Super modifier. Opt maps to Alt.

rust/
  limux-host-linux/    # GTK4/Adwaita UI (window, sidebar, panes, tabs)
  limux-ghostty-sys/   # FFI bindings to libghostty
  limux-core/          # Command dispatcher and state engine
  limux-protocol/      # Socket wire format types
  limux-control/       # Unix socket server
  limux-cli/           # CLI client

The terminal rendering is handled entirely by Ghostty's embedded library (libghostty.so), which provides GPU-accelerated OpenGL rendering. The UI layer is native GTK4 with libadwaita.

MIT