Linux Wayland

A real drop-down terminal across major Wayland desktops.

TildaZ is a direct Wayland client for Linux. It targets the Quake-style workflow on KDE Plasma, GNOME, Cinnamon, COSMIC, Hyprland, and sway without requiring an Electron, GTK, or Qt runtime.

Install on Linux Latest Release

Desktops

Not one compositor only

TildaZ tracks the desktop-specific paths needed for drop-down placement and hotkey behavior across the major Wayland environments. On GNOME and Cinnamon, a Shell extension that TildaZ installs itself does this job, and TildaZ asks you to turn it on if it is off.

KDE Plasma
GNOME
Cinnamon
COSMIC
Hyprland
sway

Native

Direct Wayland, terminal core inside

The Linux host is a direct Wayland client with the fast libghostty-vt terminal core. It is Wayland-only and does not include an X11 backend.

No Electron runtime
No GTK / Qt runtime dependency
GPU rendering through OpenGL ES

Text

Built for real terminal output

Linux support includes HiDPI / fractional scaling paths, fcitx5 / IME support, true color, ligatures, emoji, procedural box-drawing, and smooth shaded blocks.

Inline IME for Korean / Japanese / Chinese
Box-drawing for crisp TUIs
Color emoji and ligatures

Packages

Pick the Linux package format that fits your distro.

tar.gzPortable install into your home directory. The one-command installer uses it, or extract it and run ./install.sh --release for desktop file and icon setup.

debDebian / Ubuntu package for amd64 and arm64 release builds.

rpmFedora / RHEL / openSUSE package for x86_64 and aarch64 release builds.

AppImageDistro-independent single-file launch on glibc 2.28+ systems.

Archpkg.tar.zst for Arch / Manjaro / EndeavourOS via pacman -U (x86_64).

Actual Capture

A real TildaZ layer-shell surface on Linux Wayland.

Actual TildaZ Linux Wayland drop-down terminal surface — Captured from the Linux Wayland backend on KDE Plasma. The surrounding desktop was cropped out.