Tusk

A minimal, clean PostgreSQL client for GNOME.

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Tusk aims to be the best native PostgreSQL GUI on the GNOME desktop — fast, focused, and out of the way.

See docs/features.md for a full feature overview.

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Sponsor

Tusk is free and open source. If it's useful to you, consider sponsoring its development.

Sponsor Tusk

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Screenshots

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Sponsor

Tusk is free and open source. If it's useful to you, consider sponsoring its development.

Sponsor Tusk

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Install

AppImage — works on any Linux distro:

chmod +x Tusk-*.AppImage && ./Tusk-*.AppImage

Debian / Ubuntu:

sudo apt install ./tusk-gnome-*.deb

Fedora / RHEL:

sudo rpm -i tusk-gnome-*.rpm

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Dev setup

Requirements: Python 3.11+, GTK4, libadwaita ≥ 1.4

# System deps (Debian/Ubuntu)
sudo apt install python3-venv python3-gi gir1.2-gtk-4.0 gir1.2-adw-1
make apt-deps          # GtkSourceView (syntax highlighting)

# Python deps + run
make deps
make run

Other targets

Command	Description
make run	Run from source (no install)
make install	Build with Meson and install
make uninstall	Uninstall
make clean	Remove build artifacts
make lint	Lint with ruff
make format	Format with ruff