- Freely positioned, overlapping terminal windows
- Keyboard-driven window management
- Mouse support: drag title bars to move, drag edges to resize
- Configurable colors and key bindings via TOML
- A real terminal emulator (Float uses raw mode and the alternate screen; integrated IDE terminals are not supported yet)
- Linux (uses Unix PTY APIs and
/proc) - Rust toolchain
Choose one of the three options
Float is available as a binary crate on crates.io under the name float-mux (float was already taken, sadly...)
Install it with cargo and run it
cargo install float-mux
float-muxYou can find the binaries for every version tag in the section
Clone the repository and build with Cargo
git clone https://github.com/henktorius/float
cd float
cargo build --releaseThe binary will be at target/release/float-mux.
| Action | Default |
|---|---|
| New window | Alt+c |
| Focus next window | Alt+n |
| Focus previous | Alt+p |
| Focus by number | Alt+1–9 |
| Move window left | Alt+h / Alt+← |
| Move window down | Alt+j / Alt+↓ |
| Move window up | Alt+k / Alt+↑ |
| Move window right | Alt+l / Alt+→ |
| Resize left edge | Alt+H / Alt+Shift+← |
| Resize bottom edge | Alt+J / Alt+Shift+↓ |
| Resize top edge | Alt+K / Alt+Shift+↑ |
| Resize right edge | Alt+L / Alt+Shift+→ |
| Close window | Alt+x |
| Quit Float | Alt+q |
- Move: drag the title bar of any window
- Resize: drag the left, right, bottom, or bottom-corner edges
- Focus: click on any window
Float reads ~/.config/float/config.toml. Check out the config.example.toml file in the repository.