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Life & fun · July 29, 2026

Tessera – tmux/Zellij ergonomics for macOS windows

A keyboard-driven tiling window manager for macOS — tmux/Zellij workflows for any app. - pa/tessera

Tessera – tmux/Zellij ergonomics for macOS windows launched on July 29, 2026 with 7 votes, #2,664 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Tessera A keyboard-driven tiling window manager for macOS — tmux/Zellij workflows for any app. Tessera brings terminal-multiplexer ergonomics — tabs, splits, panes, a command palette, modal keys — to arbitrary GUI apps by puppeting their windows through the macOS Accessibility API. It's a menu-bar agent (look for the ▚ glyph); no Dock icon, no window. brew tap pa/tessera brew trust pa/tessera # required once: Homebrew gates 3rd-party taps brew install tessera brew services start tessera # run now + at login brew trust is a one-time consent step Homebrew requires for any third-party tap — it can't be pre-approved on your behalf. Without it brew install stops with "Refusing to load formula ……from github.com

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