Merrit/nyrna

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1273 stars · 27 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Nyrna is a desktop application that suspends and resumes running games and applications, similar to console sleep modes, freeing CPU and GPU resources without losing progress. It offers a Material GUI, hotkey support, and a CLI toggle, working on Linux (X11) and Windows.

Use cases

• pause games that have no pause feature like Dark Souls or Elden Ring
• suspend a long 3D render or video encode to free up CPU and GPU
• pause a game mid-cutscene to answer the door
• temporarily free system resources for a Zoom meeting without closing a job
• suspend a game between checkpoints like in Hollow Knight
• toggle suspend/resume of the active window with a hotkey

When to choose

• you need to pause unpausable single-player games on Linux X11 or Windows
• you want to temporarily reclaim CPU/GPU from long-running tasks like renders or compilation
• you want a simple GUI or hotkey-driven process suspend tool

When to avoid

• you need suspend-to-disk or restore after reboot
• you run Linux on Wayland and rely on global hotkeys
• you cannot tolerate the small risk of the suspended application crashing

Facets

application · maturity active

gui cli developer-tools gaming-tools developer-tools cross-platform windows windows cli process-suspend flutter dart game-pause resource-management x11 linux desktop

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