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

8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 3 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-11-28 · latest 2025-10-01

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  1. …have a look around at some of the emulators that make using the GPU a marketing point. DarkTile ( https://github.com/liamg/darktile ) accepts TTF and OTF, so presumably if you can get your bitmap font of choice converted into those formats…
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-10-01 · in Rio Terminal: A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator
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    story by LarryClapp · 2023-12-21 · 66 comments
  3. Since darktile is written in go, it's easier to test drive and potentially package. go run github.com/liamg/darktile/cmd/darktile@latest
    comment by moondev · 2021-08-30 · in Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
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    Darktile – GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers
    story by JNRowe · 2021-08-30 · 73 comments
  5. …broad range of GUI terminal emulators (e.g. genuine XTerm, MinTTY (per MinTTY issue #572), Aminal ( https://github.com/liamg/aminal ), iTerm2 (per iTerm2 issue #3240)); but not by all and not, of course, by TUI terminal emulators. * ReGIS…
    comment by JdeBP · 2020-10-27 · in Developing a CLI Music Player in C# using Terminal.Gui
  6. …Terminals I prefer over this: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty https://github.com/liamg/aminal https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
    comment by quangio · 2018-12-23 · in Extraterm. A cross platform terminal enumlator
  7. …resets all sorts of GPU state on each print call, for each character, which is rather expensive: https://github.com/liamg/aminal/blob/master/glfont/font.go#L... Speaking of the main loop, for every columm and every row: cx :=…
    comment by PavlovsCat · 2018-11-28 · in Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch
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    Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch
    story by guessmyname · 2018-11-28 · 80 comments