Switching from Tilix to WezTerm

Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator for Linux. It supports splitting panes, named sessions, and a password manager integration. Tilix is not in the CachyOS repositories, though it is available in AUR, but requires gtkd which also has to be built from AUR (and has been broken several times). Tilix also have some issue if the terminal gets too busy, namely using a lot of CPU. WezTerm is the replacement chosen, it is GPU-accelerated, actively maintained, and configured entirely in Lua. ...

April 3, 2026 · 8 min · alj

Hibernation on CachyOS with GNOME, GRUB, btrfs and FDE

This covers setting up hibernation on CachyOS with GNOME, GRUB, btrfs, full-disk encryption (LUKS unlocked at the GRUB prompt), and zram already in use. Verified on a Lenovo ThinkBook with GNOME 49. Written for CachyOS, but most of this should apply to other Arch-based distributions. A few caveats: CachyOS ships with a systemd-based initrd and zram enabled by default — if your distribution uses a busybox-based initrd (i.e. base and udev hooks rather than systemd), you will need a resume hook in mkinitcpio instead of relying on systemd’s native resume handling. The efivarfs sleep hook in Step 5 is firmware-specific and not distribution-specific. Distributions that use GRUB with LUKS and btrfs in the same way as described here should be able to follow this guide without modification. ...

March 22, 2026 · 8 min · alj