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README.md

Darktile

Darktile is a GPU rendered terminal emulator designed for tiling window managers.

Demo

Features

  • GPU rendering
  • Unicode support
  • Compiled-in powerline font
  • Configurable/customisable, supports custom themes, fonts etc.
  • Hints: Context-aware overlays e.g. hex colour viewer
  • Take screenshots with a single key-binding
  • Sixel support
  • Transparency

Installation

Install dependencies:

  • xorg-dev
  • libgl1-mesa-dev

Grab a binary from the latest release.

Alternatively, you can install with Go:

go get github.com/liamg/darktile/cmd/darktile

Configuration

Configuration files should be created in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/darktile/ if the variable is defined, otherwise in $HOME/.config/darktile/.

If you wish, you can create an example config file as a starting point using darktile --rewrite-config.

Darktile will use sensible defaults if no config/theme files are available. The same applies when you omit settings from config/theme files, meaning it is perfectly valid to start with empty config/theme files and add to them as required to override the default behaviour.

Config File

Found in the config directory (see above) inside config.yaml.

opacity: 1.0 # window opacity: 0.0 is fully transparent, 1.0 is fully opaque
font:
  family: "" # Find possible values for this by running 'darktile list-fonts'
  size: 16
  dpi: 72

Example Theme

Found in the config directory (see above) inside theme.yaml. You can replace this file with a symlink or any theme file from darktile-themes.

black: '#1d1f21'
red: '#cc6666'
green: '#b5bd68'
yellow: '#f0c674'
blue: '#81a2be'
magenta: '#b294bb'
cyan: '#8abeb7'
white: '#c5c8c6'
brightblack: '#666666'
brightred: '#d54e53'
brightgreen: '#b9ca4a'
brightyellow: '#e7c547'
brightblue: '#7aa6da'
brightmagenta: '#c397d8'
brightcyan: '#70c0b1'
brightwhite: '#eaeaea'
background: '#1d1f21'
foreground: '#c5c8c6'
selectionbackground: '#aa8800'
selectionforeground: '#ffffff'
cursorforeground: '#1d1f21'
cursorbackground: '#c5c8c6'

Key Bindings

Action Binding
Copy ctrl + shift + C
Paste ctrl + shift + V
Decrease font size ctrl + -
Increase font size ctrl + =
Take screenshot ctrl + shift + [
Open URL ctrl + click

FAQ

What happened to Aminal?

The name changed as a result of a near-complete rewrite of Aminal. Also, Google's "did you mean animal?" was getting pretty annoying.

Did darktile drop Windows/OSX support?

While the project likely won't need much work to build on Windows/OSX, the focus is to develop Darktile for tiling window managers under Linux. If you'd like to get Darktile working for other environments, pull requests are always very welcome, especially when preceded by issues/discussion.