# thestinger/termite

Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.

Repository: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/termite
Homepage: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Language: C++
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-05-07T11:46:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5216, "days_push": 1944, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2707, forks 239 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:11.654195+00:00)

## What it is
Termite was a keyboard-centric terminal emulator built on the VTE (GTK) widget, designed for use inside tiling window managers that handle tabs and splits. It is now officially obsoleted by Alacritty, which the project recommends as its replacement.

## Use cases
- keyboard-driven terminal emulator for i3 or other tiling window managers
- terminal with vim-like keyboard text selection mode
- terminal with URL hints mode for opening links from the keyboard
- minimal terminal emulator that delegates tabbing and splitting to the window manager
- find a replacement for termite on Linux

## When to choose
- you are maintaining a legacy Linux setup already configured around Termite and its config format

## When to avoid
- starting any new setup - use Alacritty instead, as the project itself recommends
- you need a maintained terminal emulator with active development and security fixes
- you want cross-platform support beyond Linux/BSD
- you need features like GPU-accelerated rendering or modern performance

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: terminal-ui, gui
- domain: developer-tools, desktop-applications
- platform: cpp
- tags: terminal-emulator, vte, keyboard-centric, tiling-window-manager, obsolete, gtk, command-line, linux, desktop

## Member repositories
- thestinger/termite (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.654195+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 2026-08-30T02:15:50.413271+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thestinger/termite (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:11.654195+00:00, sha 4fc115d9beaf)
  - homepage: https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty (fetched 2026-08-29T09:58:49.078443+00:00, sha 8932499de33c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.