ttyx_
Tilix, but with a pulse.
ttyx_ is an actively maintained fork of Tilix, the tiling terminal emulator for Linux. The original project did amazing work but, with development stalled and a growing list of unaddressed bugs, ttyx_ picks up where it left off — with a focus on security hardening and responsiveness to modern Linux desktops.
What you get
Tile terminals any way you like
Split horizontally, vertically, nest arbitrarily. Drag and drop terminals within and between windows. Save and restore layouts as sessions. Synchronize input across terminals when you need to drive several at once. Everything that made Tilix the tiling terminal of choice on Linux is still here.
Security-conscious by default
Paste from the clipboard with review dialogs, dangerous-command detection, and auto-clear after copy. Clear visual indicators when a session is running as root or over SSH. Core-dump protection, in-memory-only scrollback, and a one-shortcut Secure Clear for wiping the scrollback when sensitive data has been displayed.
See the Security features page for the full list, configuration reference, and an explicit threat model.
Actively maintained
ttyx_ ships bug fixes (crash on malformed OSC 7 URIs, preferences-dialog segfaults, proxy URL construction, focus stealing on terminal restart, …), new color schemes, release-build optimizations, and a growing test suite. Contributions welcome via pull request; the issue tracker is actually read.
See What’s new vs Tilix for the full comparison and the changelog for per-release notes.
Where to next
- Install — Flatpak (recommended) and source builds (Meson / Dub).
- Manual — topic-by-topic reference: titles, Quake mode, triggers, color schemes, profile switching, and more.
- Security features — paste / clipboard / memory protections, threat model, and configuration reference.
- What’s new vs Tilix — feature-level differences from upstream.
- Changelog — per-release notes.
- Migrating from Tilix — what ttyx_ does with your existing Tilix config on first run.
- Development — build, test, and debug ttyx_ from source; code-style and PR conventions.
- Report an issue — bug reports and feature requests.
About this documentation
Much of the manual content originated in Gerald Nunn’s Tilix and is reused under MPL-2.0. Adaptation is in progress; see the documentation tracking issue for what’s done and what’s still open.