A terminal workspace manager for macOS and Windows that saves your multi-pane layouts so you stop rebuilding them every morning. Like tmux sessions, but with a native GUI, split panes, and themed workspaces.
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Each theme has its own visual effects — scanlines, phosphor glow, noise textures, gradient overlays — applied to terminal backgrounds and pane chrome. These aren't color swaps.
| Platform | File |
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| macOS (Apple Silicon + Intel) | knkode_2.3.0_universal.dmg |
| Windows (installer) | knkode_2.3.0_x64-setup.exe |
| Windows (MSI) | knkode_2.3.0_x64_en-US.msi |
Every project needs a different terminal setup — build watcher, dev server, logs, a shell for git. You arrange them, close the window, and rebuild the whole thing next time. knkode saves each arrangement as a named workspace you can switch between instantly.
Workspaces as tabs. Each workspace is a color-coded tab with its own split-pane layout. Create, duplicate, close, drag to reorder, or reopen from the closed-workspaces menu. Switching is instant — background shells stay alive.
Split panes and subgroups. Six layout presets plus split any pane on the fly. Drag pane headers to rearrange — drop on center to swap, drop on an edge to insert. Move panes across workspaces via right-click. Within a workspace, group panes into subgroups — independent split layouts switchable from the sidebar (like tmux windows within a session). Bracket connectors in the sidebar show which panes belong to which group.
16 themes. 8 identity themes with unique visual effects (Matrix, Cyberpunk, Vaporwave, Amber, Solana, Ocean, Sunset, Arctic) and 8 classics (Dracula, Tokyo Night, Nord, Catppuccin, Gruvbox, Monokai, Everforest, Default Dark). Each has custom pane chrome — parallelogram badges, CRT scanlines, gradient borders, retro grids — and themed animated separators between subgroup brackets. Applied per-workspace, with per-pane color overrides.
Sidebar. Tree-style mission control — workspaces with CWD path, git branch badge, and PR status at the workspace level. Pane entries show terminal titles and activity indicators that pulse on output. Subgroup brackets with themed animated separators (scan, wave, ember, shimmer).
Terminal. Rust-native terminal emulation via wezterm-term, rendered on a custom HTML canvas. Clickable URLs (Cmd+click), inline images (iTerm2/Kitty/Sixel protocols), CWD tracking in pane headers, file drag-and-drop to paste paths. Shift+Enter sends LF instead of CR for tools like Claude Code.
Quick commands. Reusable shell snippets per workspace. Run them from the >_ icon on any pane header.
Persistent. Config stored as JSON in ~/.knkode/. Atomic writes (temp + rename) so crashes don't corrupt state.
Requires Rust, Node.js >= 18, and bun.
git clone https://github.com/knkenko/knkode.git
cd knkode
bun install
bun tauri devOpens the app with hot reload. macOS uses a frameless window with native traffic lights; Windows uses the standard title bar.
bun run test # vitest
bun run check # biome check
bun run build # compile frontend
bun tauri build # full app build (.dmg / .exe)Stack: Tauri 2, Rust (tattoy-wezterm-term + portable-pty), React 19, TypeScript, Zustand 5, Tailwind CSS 4, Vite 6, Biome.