#1086142 RFP: rio terminal -- A hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

Package:
rioterm
Source:
rioterm
Submitter:
Raphael Amorim
Date:
2026-04-30 20:01:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1086142#5
Date:
2024-10-27 12:15:00 UTC
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*wishlist*

* Package name    : rioterm
  Version         : 0.1.17
  Upstream Author : Raphael Amorim <rapha850@gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/raphamorim/rio
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator

Rio is a hardware-accelerated GPU terminal emulator focusing to run
in desktops and browsers. Reference issue:
https://github.com/raphamorim/rio/issues/730.

It would be nice to have it in Debian!
#1086142#16
Date:
2025-01-03 08:30:10 UTC
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#1086142#23
Date:
2026-04-17 10:11:07 UTC
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Hi,

I'd like to register interest in this RFP and also propose a possible path
around the main blocker.

From Blair Noctis's earlier note, the packaging is stuck on wgpu and
librashader not being in Debian. Rather than waiting for that whole Rust
graphics stack to land, one alternative is to add a native Vulkan backend
to Rio upstream. Since Rio is Rust and Vulkan has solid Debian-packaged
bindings (ash, vulkano), a native backend would let rioterm be built
without depending on wgpu at all — which removes the larger of the two
blockers entirely.
#1086142#28
Date:
2026-04-30 20:00:09 UTC
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Hi there, v0.4 now makes wgpu and librashader optional. Please consider Rio
in the packaging.