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A terminal workspace, not an agent platform.

ForkTTY is for Linux users who want native Ghostty-backed panes, a project sidebar, git worktrees, notifications, and a small local socket without adopting a bundled coordination engine.

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Quick start

Try a release build and compare terminal behavior, workspace navigation, and resource use with your current setup.

Inspect local health
forktty doctor
List socket capabilities
forktty capabilities

Compared with tmux

ForkTTY provides a native GTK desktop shell, embedded Ghostty rendering, project workspaces, desktop notifications, and mouse-driven panes.

Compared with editor terminals

ForkTTY keeps the terminal as the primary surface and works with any editor or coding agent CLI.

Compared with agent platforms

ForkTTY does not own prompts, model access, task routing, teams, workflows, or MCP configuration.

Questions

Is ForkTTY a tmux replacement?
It overlaps with tabs and splits but uses a native GTK/Ghostty desktop model.
Is ForkTTY a cmux port?
No. It shares the terminal-workspace product category but has an independent Rust/GTK implementation.
Who should use it?
Linux users who want a focused graphical workspace for terminal-based development and coding agents.

Explore related ForkTTY pages

Ghostty terminalGit worktreesPTY persistenceDocs

Get the alpha build

AppImage and .deb packages are published on GitHub Releases for Linux x86_64.

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