The Terminal, Re-engineered.
Your terminal. Your workflow.
Glyph is a modern, customizable Linux terminal emulator built with Rust, Tauri, and xterm.js for developers who demand native performance and persistent workspaces.
Built for the way you actually use a terminal.
Gives you a raw shell in an isolated window. Disconnected sessions, lost scrollbacks, and manual tab juggling.
Gives you a persistent development workspace. Nested splits, saved environments, and semantic shell awareness.
Nested Panes
Split horizontally and vertically without resetting your running processes or shell environment.
Persistent Workspaces
Save your entire layout, directory roots, and startup commands, restoring them in one click.
Deep Customization
Fine-tune cursor style, blink physics, fonts, dot matrices, and terminal themes effortlessly.
Keyboard-First
Every pane navigation, split operation, tab switch, and setting is fully remappable.
Global Search
Regex and case-sensitive search through gigabytes of scrollback buffer history instantly.
System Telemetry
Native sysinfo monitors CPU load, RAM utilization, and cache metrics straight in your chrome.
One terminal. Multiple contexts.
Split your terminal into nested panes without losing the sessions that are already running. Every pane connects to an isolated Linux PTY managed by native Rust threads.
Designed for parallel operations
Never interrupt a dev server just to run a quick test or inspect git status. Glyph lets you subdivide any active pane horizontally or vertically with instantaneous keyboard shortcuts.
- Horizontal and vertical splits with adjustable ratios
- Nested layouts for complex multi-service orchestration
- Independent PTY sessions that never interrupt long-running builds
- Preserved scrollback buffers across split re-allocations
- Keyboard hotkeys for quick pane hopping: Ctrl+Shift+D / Ctrl+Shift+O
- Seamless resize handles with pixel-exact font re-wrapping
Save your entire development environment.
Workspaces let you save complex terminal pane arrangements, working directories, and startup commands. When you reboot or switch projects, one shortcut restores your entire setup.
Make the terminal yours.
Glyph gives you complete architectural control over the visual surface. Configure fonts, cursor styles, animation speeds, dot densities, and custom color themes through an intuitive preferences window.
Interactive Theme & Cursor Playground
Preview real Glyph themes and dynamic cursor styles live in this browser sandbox.
Compiling glyph-core v0.2.0 (/workspace/glyph/src-tauri)
Checking portable-pty v0.8.1
Checking sysinfo v0.30.5
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] in 0.84s
Your terminal doesn't have to look like every other terminal.
Inspired by industrial design, Teenage Engineering, and Nothing OS. Glyph integrates hardware-accelerated monochromatic dot-grids, static matrix grids, and subtle reactive mouse luminescence into the terminal viewport without taxing your CPU.
Move your cursor across the panel to experience restrained, non-intrusive interactive luminescence.
Rendered purely via GPU-accelerated CSS properties. Zero canvas loop penalty.
Know what's happening under the hood.
Glyph embeds a real-time hardware telemetry monitor directly inside the terminal titlebar and status strip. Powered by the native Rust sysinfo library, it samples your CPU, RAM, and hardware cache structures with negligible overhead.
Product Visualization: The values displayed above illustrate Glyph's UI telemetry instrumentation. Glyph reads genuine host metrics via Rust's compiled sysinfo crate without launching shell child processes.
Glyph understands the shell.
Standard terminals treat output as a flat stream of characters. Glyph parses standard OSC 133 escape sequences, creating semantic awareness of prompts, execution boundaries, and exit statuses.
glyph:~/app$
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/SARATHKUMAR-T/glyph/releases/latest
{"tag_name": "v0.2.0", "name": "Glyph v0.2.0"}
... [64 assets detected] ...
Process terminated cleanly. Execution elapsed time: 142ms.
Find anything.
Never squint through thousands of scrollback lines again. Glyph features high-performance terminal buffer search with regex expressions, case toggling, and keyboard navigation.
Keep your hands on the keyboard.
Every terminal interaction is accessible without reaching for your mouse. Customize defaults or remap chords entirely to conform to your existing muscle memory.
New Terminal Tab
Spawns a fresh independent terminal tab in the current window
New Window
Opens an isolated native Glyph window
Next Tab
Cycles forward through active terminal tabs
Split Right
Splits active pane vertically without terminating running process
Split Down
Splits active pane horizontally for side-by-side commands
Close Active Pane
Gracefully terminates current pane session and reclaims space
Save Workspace
Persists current split layout, working directories, and startup commands
Open Workspace
Triggers the saved workspace picker to restore environments instantly
Search Buffer
Opens the global regex-enabled terminal scrollback search bar
Preferences
Opens terminal styling, cursor modes, and font configuration
Built close to the metal.
Glyph separates the native Linux terminal and PTY lifecycle from the user interface. The UI does not simulate a shell; it controls an actual native operating system process through Rust.
Tauri IPC Bridge
Zero-Copy IPC Communication
Built in the open.
Glyph is free, open source software developed in the open on GitHub under the permissive MIT License. Inspect the Rust codebase, contribute features, submit bug reports, or audit the security of the PTY subsystem.
Ready to change your terminal?
Free and open-source. Download the standalone native binaries directly from GitHub Releases.
Debian Package
Standard installation package for Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and derivatives.
Standalone AppImage
Single executable binary. Runs on Arch, Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu without system installation.
RedHat / RPM Package
Compatible with Fedora, CentOS Stream, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, and openSUSE.
Simple, single-command setup.
Run Glyph directly or install it via your distribution's native package manager.
sudo apt install ./Glyph_latest_amd64.deb