Pre-release channel
Latest stable: v1.2.0.
New in this drop
- The keyboard floats over the Linux display in portrait again on installs where an older Layout editor visit had switched it to making room.
- Keyboard over display, in Settings → Display → Input, switches the keyboard between floating over the Linux display and making the display resize.
Experimental
These may change or be dropped before they reach a stable release.
- Linux apps whose installer left a placeholder in place of their command, such as Termux's Chromium, now open from the drawer; an app whose command is missing says which one instead of a generic error. (merge 7940a21 on
pre) - Benchmark graphics, under Settings → Display → Linux apps → Set up Linux apps → Graphics, tries every graphics option this phone has and keeps the fastest. (merge d55271a on
pre) - Full screen now uses the whole screen: the empty band left where the status bar was is gone. (280ced3 on
pre) - Dragging one of the launcher's own widgets to the edge of the Widgets page to move it to another page no longer crashes the launcher. (77e72e4 on
pre) - With another app as your home screen, Appearance lets you pick a picture for Termux Launcher alone: it sits behind the terminal and under the glass, and the phone's own wallpaper stays as it was. Tick "Also set as phone wallpaper" to set both. The launcher's Material colours follow that picture. (merges 19b0f4c and 0f256d0 on
pre) - Settings › App › Battery & performance gathers Reduce idle activity, the Low-memory preset and the motion they trim (Glass refraction, Living glass, Wallpaper parallax, Cursor trail, Terminal effect), and shows which ones a preset has turned off. Wallpaper parallax moved there from Appearance. (merge 8f13019 on
pre) - The keyboard floats over the Linux display in portrait as it does in landscape, so apps no longer resize and flicker each time it opens. (branch
feat/display-keyboard, spec #125) - "Keyboard follows text fields" works in every touch mode: Touchscreen, Trackpad and Direct touch. (branch
feat/display-keyboard, #126) - The touchpad has a button that switches between the keyboard floating over the display and the display making room for it, so you can reach its bottom corners. (branch
feat/display-keyboard, #128) - With fcitx5, which Set up Linux apps now installs, the keyboard comes up when a text field in a Linux app takes focus and goes when it loses it, with no tap; it no longer opens over text you can only read, and stays put as you move between fields. (branch
feat/display-keyboard, #129–#131) - The app drawer, the command palette and sheets opened over the Linux display take Back and your typing, as they do over the terminal; the drawer's search there brings up the keyboard. (branch
feat/display-keyboard) - The drawer's "Search keyboard" setting is now "Use system keyboard". (branch
feat/display-keyboard) - Fresh installs start from a newer Termux base (bootstrap 2026.10.18). (branch
feat/display-keyboard) - On installs where an older Layout editor visit had saved "make room" for portrait without the user choosing it, the keyboard floats over the Linux display again; leaving the Layout editor without saving no longer saves the keyboard mode. (PR #138)
- Settings → Display → Input → Keyboard over display: Overlay or Resize display, for both orientations at once; the touchpad's button still switches one orientation. (PR #138)
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