liamg/darktile
:waning_crescent_moon: Darktile is an experimental/abandoned GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2877
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1263
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3083 stars · 117 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Darktile is a GPU-rendered terminal emulator written in Go, designed for use with tiling window managers. It supports Unicode, themes, font ligatures, context-aware hints, screenshots, sixels, and window transparency.
Use cases
- gpu accelerated terminal emulator for linux
- terminal emulator for tiling window managers like i3
- terminal with font ligature support
- take terminal screenshots with a keybinding
- customizable transparent terminal with themes
When to choose
- you use a tiling window manager on Linux and want GPU-rendered terminal output
- you want font ligatures, sixel support, and context-aware overlays in a terminal
- you want a single static binary terminal emulator with simple YAML configuration
When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with recent bug fixes
- you are on macOS or Windows rather than Linux with X11
- you need a terminal with extensive plugin or split-pane features built in
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
gui terminal-ui graphics developer-tools cross-platform go terminal-emulator gpu-rendering tiling-window-managers opengl font-ligatures sixel command-line linux desktop
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/liamg/darktile · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2a93257a6a6c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| liamg/darktile | main | 23 |
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