Glyph Manual & Architecture

Glyph is distributed as native 64-bit Linux binaries. After installing the package for your distribution, you can launch Glyph directly from your application launcher or via terminal:

Every pane operation, workspace switch, and font adjustment is engineered to be zero-mouse operable:

Glyph uses declarative TOML for its configuration. Changes made to this file are hot-reloaded automatically by the Rust file-watcher without restarting your sessions.

[window]
decorations = false
opacity = 0.98
blur = true
padding = { x = 12, y = 10 }

[font]
family = "JetBrains Mono"
size = 13.5
line_height = 1.35
weight = "Regular"

[cursor]
style = "block" # "block" | "beam" | "underline"
blink = true
blink_interval_ms = 500

[theme]
active = "industrial-light"
contrast = 1.0

[shell]
program = "/bin/bash"
args = ["--login"]
osc133_integration = true

Glyph supports semantic terminal escape sequences (OSC 133). When enabled, Glyph detects when prompts start, when commands begin executing, and exact exit codes to display in pane status bars:

# Add to ~/.bashrc for Glyph OSC 133 semantic integration:
__glyph_prompt_start() { printf "\033]133;A\007"; }
__glyph_command_start() { printf "\033]133;C\007"; }
__glyph_command_executed() {
  local ret=$?
  printf "\033]133;D;%d\007" "$ret"
  return $ret
}
PROMPT_COMMAND="__glyph_command_executed; __glyph_prompt_start; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
PS1="\[\033]133;B\007\]$PS1"

Glyph is built on a 3-tier decoupled architecture designed for sub-millisecond input response and crash resilience: