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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…
  2. Since darktile is written in go, it's easier to test drive and potentially package. go run github.com/liamg/darktile/cmd/darktile@latest
  3. …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…
  4. …Terminals I prefer over this: https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty https://github.com/liamg/aminal https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
  5. …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