Calyx: A Native macOS 26+ Terminal Application with Liquid Glass UI and GPU Acceleration
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Summary
Calyx is a native macOS 26+ terminal application built on the libghostty terminal engine with Metal GPU-accelerated rendering. It features a Liquid Glass UI following macOS 26 Tahoe design language with customizable theme colors (8 presets plus custom options), automatic text color adaptation based on luminance, and tab groups with 10 color presets that are collapsible/expandable. The application is available on GitHub as an open-source project.
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libghostty terminal engine -- Metal GPU-accelerated rendering via Ghostty v1.3.1 submodule
Liquid Glass UI -- native macOS 26 Tahoe design language with customizable theme color (8 presets + custom hex/color picker)
Tab Groups -- 10 color presets, collapsible/expandable sec
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