diff --git a/pkgs/applications/display-managers/emptty/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/emptty/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d4224893ba48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/display-managers/emptty/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{ buildGoModule
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, lib
+, libX11
+, pam
+, stdenv
+}:
+
+buildGoModule rec {
+  pname = "emptty";
+  version = "0.9.0";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "tvrzna";
+    repo = pname;
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    hash = "sha256-iT7wdxHC+/3fvBbSrHHuqNYWiqwL48NYzFmtmgVaFik=";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pam libX11 ];
+
+  vendorHash = "sha256-tviPb05puHvBdDkSsRrBExUVxQy+DzmkjB+W9W2CG4M=";
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "Dead simple CLI Display Manager on TTY";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tvrzna/emptty";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ urandom ];
+    # many undefined functions
+    broken = stdenv.isDarwin;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e0250438fa03..370ed50be394 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -28239,6 +28239,8 @@ with pkgs;
 
   inherit (gnome) empathy;
 
+  emptty = callPackage ../applications/display-managers/emptty {};
+
   endeavour = callPackage ../applications/office/endeavour { };
 
   enhanced-ctorrent = callPackage ../applications/networking/p2p/enhanced-ctorrent { };