Moonlander is the fanciest Gemini client in the entire solar system.

Note: Moonlander is still under development. While most features work well enough, issues might happen.

• Custom, themeable rendering engine via Cairo & Pango
• Tries to follow Gnome HIG

• TLS Certificates aren't verified
• Somewhat high resource usage (for a Gemini client)
• Cannot navigate backwards through redirections
• Renderer doesn't behave "native"
  • Cannot select/copy text
  • No interaction other than mouse clicks on links and scrolling

• Tabs

• Render more than just text/gemini and plaintext.

  • Planned: Markdown & images

• Possibly support other protocols

  • Gopher, etc.
  • Definitely not HTTP, unless excluding HTML

• Syntax highlighting (?)

  • Waiting on text/gemini preformatting annotations to be somewhat standardized

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~admicos/moonlander
cd moonlander

cargo build --release

cd target/release
strip -s moonlander # optional, reduces file size by ~50%

• GTK 3
• Cairo
• Pango
• A new-ish Rust compiler

See Gtk-rs Windows requirements

Run Moonlander for the first time to create the configuration defaults.

• Windows: %APPDATA%/ecmelberk/moonlander/config.toml
• Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/moonlander/config.toml ($XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config under most cases)
• macOS: $HOME/Library/Preferences/com.ecmelberk.moonlander/config.toml

If you want to embed Moonlander's rendering engine in your own application, see the moonrender directory. If your application uses relm, you can use relm-moonrender.

• If you found any issues, please submit a ticket (~admicos/[email protected]).
• For questions, patches or discussion, send an email (~admicos/[email protected]).

For patches sent via email, please make sure you indicate that it's for Moonlander by running the following on your clone of the repo:

git config format.subjectprefix "PATCH moonlander"

Moonlander, Moonrender, relm-moonrender and the Gemini client under the gemini/ directory are all licensed under the MIT License, which is available in the LICENSE file of this repository.