About geopard

Geopard is a gtk4 gemini client

Some notable features

• Colors! The browser will have a different color for each domain you visit.

• Fast (async core + caching). Streams content by default. That means you can open pages even when you have connection speeds of Kb/s. It also caches pages in the history, so you can go back/forward in an instant

• Can download binary files. The download will start as soon as you open the corresponding link. You can always cancel it by opening another page.

• It works. Until I find another bug

Technical details

Under the hood, it uses gtk4 and rust. Everything related to IO is asynchronous. To do that, it makes use of rust async/await capabilities and the async-std crate.

How to change settings

You should find the configuration files in ~/.config/geopard/ If you use flatpak, they are in ~/.var/app/com.ranfdev.Geopard/config/geopard/. In the future I will probably introduce a settings GUI.

How to build

With Flatpak

If you have gnome-builder installed, use it to the open the folder of the source code and hit the run button.

Build with Nix

If you have the => https://nixos.org/ nix package manager and flakes enabled, you can simply do:

git clone https://github.com/ranfdev/Geopard.git
nix build
./result/bin/geopard

General build instructions

Install these development packages:

• gtk4
• glib
• rust (with cargo)
• openssl
• pkg-config
• meson

Clone, compile, install.

git clone https://github.com/ranfdev/Geopard.git
cd Geopard
meson --prefix=/usr build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install

Authors

=> https://ranfdev.com Lorenzo Miglietta (ranfdev)