# Merrit/nyrna

Suspend games and applications.

Repository: https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nyrna
Homepage: https://nyrna.merritt.codes
Language: Dart
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: linux, suspend, games, applications, utility, pause, hibernate, multitask, dart, flutter
Last push: 2026-05-26T19:54:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 88/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 86, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2285, "days_push": 99, "days_rel": 99, "gap_med": 23.0, "n_releases_24m": 9}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1273, forks 27 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:12.313569+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, cli, developer-tools
- domain: gaming-tools, developer-tools, cross-platform, windows
- platform: windows, cli
- tags: process-suspend, flutter, dart, game-pause, resource-management, x11, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- Merrit/nyrna (main) score 88

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:12.313569+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 2026-08-30T05:03:10.855738+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Merrit/nyrna (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:12.313569+00:00, sha 9b7df10497c0)
  - homepage: https://nyrna.merritt.codes (fetched 2026-08-29T12:14:22.156513+00:00, sha 8fada3b5166e)
  - site_page: https://nyrna.merritt.codes/features (fetched 2026-08-29T12:14:22.158834+00:00, sha a5f7fb52424a)
  - site_page: https://nyrna.merritt.codes/docs/video-demonstrations (fetched 2026-08-29T12:14:22.160635+00:00, sha 6ddd8443ad0c)
  - site_page: https://nyrna.merritt.codes/docs/hotkey (fetched 2026-08-29T12:14:22.162523+00:00, sha f5eeee3cb1cb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.