# liamg/darktile

:waning_crescent_moon: Darktile is an experimental/abandoned GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers.

Repository: https://github.com/liamg/darktile
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/darktile
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: terminal, vt100, xterm, xterm-256color, opengl, golang, terminal-emulator, terminal-emulators
Last push: 2023-03-19T20:26:56+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2877, "days_push": 1263, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3083, forks 117 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:41.955695+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: gui, terminal-ui, graphics
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: go
- tags: terminal-emulator, gpu-rendering, tiling-window-managers, opengl, font-ligatures, sixel, command-line, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- liamg/darktile (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.955695+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:27:41.976152+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/liamg/darktile (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:41.955695+00:00, sha 2a93257a6a6c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.