signalHacker News Show HN2026-09-19
Show HN: I made Niri-like terminal colm (cmux alternative)
colm is a Linux workspace manager for coding agents built as a fork of Ghostty, featuring a workspace sidebar, niri-style horizontal column strip, live column overview grid, and agent-aware cards for Claude Code and similar tools. It exposes every window, workspace, and pane over a JSON-RPC unix socket for scripting, supports remote workspaces over SSH with tmux persistence, and is MIT-licensed with no telemetry. Install via `git clone https://github.com/al3rez/colm` and `zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -p ~/.local/opt/colm`, requiring Zig 0.15, GTK 4.16+, and libadwaita 1.5+ on Linux (Wayland or X11).
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