Float

Floating window multiplexer for your terminal, written in Rust.

Features

• 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

Requirements

• 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

Getting Started

Choose one of the three options

1. Installing via crates.io (recommended)

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-mux

2. Downloading release from GitHub

You can find the binaries for every version tag in the section

3. Building from source

Clone the repository and build with Cargo

git clone https://github.com/henktorius/float
cd float
cargo build --release

The binary will be at target/release/float-mux.

Keyboard shortcuts

Mouse

• Move: drag the title bar of any window
• Resize: drag the left, right, bottom, or bottom-corner edges
• Focus: click on any window

Configuration

Float reads ~/.config/float/config.toml. Check out the config.example.toml file in the repository.