Nyxt, an Emacs-style browser made with Common Lisp

Nyxt Browser is a fully hackable web browser - all its source code can be introspected, modified and tweaked to your exact specification.

It was written in Lisp and based on Emacs style commands .

Installation

There are several ways to install Nyxt on your system. Despite being officially available for Linux, it can also be installed on macOS and FreeBSD .

For Linux, the way of installation may depend on your distribution, however, regardless of your distribution there is a way that fits all and does not need any dependency and is the way I recommend, but at the end of this article there are links that you can see how to install in another way.

First create a local directory named nyxt and enter it:

mkdir nyxt && cd nyxt

Download the compressed file:

This is the latest version according to this article.

wget https://github.com/atlas-engineer/nyxt/releases/download/2.2.4/nyxt-2.2.4.tar.xz

Unzip the file:

tar Jxvf nyxt-2.2.4.tar.xz

From now on you can test Nyxt by running the command: ./usr/local/bin/nyxt

After unzipping, remove the tar.xz file:

rm nyxt-2.2.4.tar.xz

Exit directory and move nyxt directory to /opt

cd ..
sudo mv nyxt/ /opt/

Now create a symbolic link to /usr/local/bin:

sudo ln -s /opt/nyxt/usr/local/bin/nyxt /usr/local/bin/nyxt

From that moment on, you can test Nyxt just by running the command: nyxt

Make it possible to access it via Launcher or your system’s Dashboard and copy the .desktop for Launcher:

find /opt/nyxt/ -name "nyxt.desktop" -exec sudo cp {} /usr/share/applications/ \;

Change the executable path of the nyxt.desktop file:

sudo sed -i 's/Exec.*/Exec=nyxt %u/g' /usr/share/applications/nyxt.desktop

Set the default path for the Nyxt icon to be displayed correctly:

sudo cp $(find /opt/nyxt/ -name "nyxt.png" | grep 256x256) /usr/share/pixmaps/

Now test by trying to find it and opening it from your Launcher/Dashboard.

In my case I use Rofi: Click on the image to open in a new tab for a larger view.

Usage

As soon as you open Nyxt for the first time, the home page already offers you links to: Keyboard shortcuts, Tutorials and others, but the basic procedures for navigating are:

Remember that in Emacs almost everything is combinations with the keys Ctrl and Alt, where C is Ctrl and M is Alt .

C-l (Ctrl + L): Open a URL , if you do not enter the protocol, eg https://terminalroot.com/ it will search by default in DuckDuckGo the name/URL entered.
C-r: Refresh the page (Reload the buffer)
M-l(Alt + L): Open the URL in a new buffer
C-[, C-]: Toggle buffer
M-[: Returns to the previous page while browsing
M-]: Goes to the page accessed while browsing
C-j: Displays all clickable links on the page - Then type the two letters that appear from the link and press ENTER
C-q: Quit Nyxt Browser
C-space: To run a command
F1 b: Display all hotkeys
Esc: Closes the lower menu when it is open.