Android home launcher
The terminal
is the home screen.
A full Linux terminal, your widgets, a Linux display and on-device AI, behind one piece of glass.
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01 Terminal
A modern terminal,
as your Android home.
Woven into Android itself. Run the TUI apps you use every day, launch anything from the dock, and answer a notification with a swipe up on its app icon.
- Panes
- Split, move, resize. Sessions hold windows, windows hold panes. No tmux needed.
- Command palette
- Every action, one swipe. Swipe up on the space bar and type.
- Keyboard
- A port of Julow's Unexpected Keyboard. Theme it, set any font, reshape the layout, keep a clipboard inside it.
- Touch
- Drag a pane's edge to resize it. Swap two panes with a two-finger swipe. Pinch to zoom one pane.
- Status bar
- Swipe down from the terminal's top edge. Now playing, live system stats through Shizuku, and the notifications you marked essential.
- tlstore
- Builds patched for the launcher. fastfetch that plays GIFs, and dawn, a notes app that writes, searches and speaks with the models on your phone.
- Graphics
- Kitty and sixel. Images and previews render inline, in the shell.
02 Widgets
Your widgets,
one swipe left.
A page for the widgets you actually need. Eleven first-party ones ship with it, drawn in the launcher's own theme, beside any Android widget.
- Get there
- Hold the pane border and swipe, or tap the house icon at the status bar's edge.
- Built in
- Analog and Digital clock, Agenda, Calendar, Weather, Battery, System, Media, Notifications, Tasks, Scratchpad.
- Add
- Hold the page to add a widget or edit the ones you have.
- Edit mode
- Hold the pane border for more controls. In edit mode, set the grid's rows and columns.
03 Display
A third place:
a Linux desktop.
A built-in X11 display, so the full GUI apps in the termux-x11 repository run on the phone too.
- Server
- Install from the termux-x11 repository and the app lands in the drawer. Launch it like any Android app.
- Reach it
- Hold the pane border and drag, tap the screen glyph at the status bar's edge, or bind Go to Display.
- Controls
- Hold the display's border for its controls: change scaling on the fly, or switch the display off to free resources.
- Windows
- The status bar lists the display's windows. Tap one to switch, tap it again for a close button.
- Touchpad
- A touchpad mode that behaves like a touch screen. Scroll with one finger, tap a text field and the keyboard rises.
04 Look & layout
Glass, Material,
laid out your way.
Four sane defaults, or tune every element yourself.
- Look
- Clear, Mist, Tint, Solid, Custom. At Custom: blur, grain, opacity, tint, margin and corner radius, per surface.
- Clock
- Tap the status bar to tune it on its own, with faces Flip, LCD, Minimal, LED matrix, Tape, Slab.
- Layout
- Docked or floating. Corners, margin, hidden elements. Portrait and landscape each keep their own.
- Wallpaper
- Set it from Appearance and the glass gains AGSL-shaded effects and a parallax scroll under the wallpaper.
- Icons
- System icons or any installed icon pack, for the pinned row only if you prefer.
- Effects
- Cursor trails and terminal effects, a contrast control for the terminal, size and icons for the dock.
05 On-device AI
Models that
live on the phone.
Speech in, speech out, an assistant, a search index. Even the app drawer is sorted by a model that never leaves the phone.
- Drawer
- Categories, sorted on the phone. Gemma groups your installed apps into Communication, Work, Photo, Desktops, Linux apps and more. Nothing leaves the device.
- Runtimes
- LiteRT-LM by Google and MNN-LLM by Alibaba. CPU or GPU, picked per function.
- Endpoint
- OpenAI and Ollama compatible APIs on localhost. Existing SDKs and tools just work.
- Speech
- Whisper and Parakeet for voice typing, and Gemma tidies what you said. KittenTTS reads aloud.
- Modalities
- Text, vision and audio input. Embeddings for search by meaning. Image generation.
- Model centre
- One row per job: Automatic, On this phone, Remote or Off. Benchmark the models to find what suits your phone.