notcurses VS jexer

Compare notcurses vs jexer and see what are their differences.

notcurses

blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses. (by dankamongmen)

jexer

Java Text User Interface. This library implements a text-based windowing system loosely reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Vision system (by klamonte)
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notcurses

Posts with mentions or reviews of notcurses. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-02.

jexer

Posts with mentions or reviews of jexer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-09.
  • Qubes Tricks
    3 projects | /r/linux | 9 Feb 2022
    Very interesting! I was thinking literally yesterday about a TUI/GUI Qubes type concept, maybe also applicable for industrial type data diodes.
  • Show HN: Java TUI framework with sixel image support
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022
    If you code in Java, and like TUI (console type applications), then you might enjoy Jexer: https://gitlab.com/klamonte/jexer

    I started Jexer in 2013, and off-and-on it's gotten better. I think my favorite part has been crossing paths with other terminal emulator ecosystem folks over the last few years. This release brings a few prettified effects inspired by other projects that you are all hopefully quite familiar with (notcurses, chafa, and vtm):

    * Translucent windows, including images under/over each other and text.

    * Animated/pulsing text

    * Animated gifs

    * A new XtermVideoPlayer example that uses ffmpeg/JavaCV to play movies inside a text-draggable window. (No audio though.)

    * New button styles: round, diamond, left/right arrows. The button ends and shadows are drawn with images so specific font support is not required.

    * A _much_ faster and _much_ higher quality sixel encoder.

    * Different window border styles: single, double, none, and rounded corners.

    * A femme theme option.

    Some screenshots are posted here: https://twitter.com/AutumnMeowMeow/status/148922891703050240...

    It's on maven and Sourceforge.

        
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2022
  • So did y'all know that SyncTERM 1.1 has sixel support? That's so cool!
    2 projects | /r/bbs | 1 Feb 2022
    A path that started in the BBS era and is currently bringing DOOM to Xterm. And ironically, there is much better support for this now than there ever was for RIPscript.
  • I'm working on a commandline app that plays videos, any feedback is welcome
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Feb 2022
    I am working on making DOOM run inside sixel-supporting terminals. The data load is actually small, only 70-300 kbytes/sec. You don't need a GPU at all on the terminal end just for pixels.
    6 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Feb 2022
    Story time: when I first posted Jexer to Reddit, people were all "twin does that". No, it does not. twin does not pass vttest. twin has almost no widgets. twin does not support images at all, it does not multiplex images, it does not multihead images, and it does not play videos (a bit too slowly but still) in a text draggable/resizable window that could be part of a larger system. mpv/mplayer doesn't do those things either. In fact, the only two projects I know of that can do these kinds of tricks are Jexer and notcurses. (And notcurses is hella faster and great, and I would have used it in 2013 when I started Jexer, but it didn't exist then.)
  • Terminal Technical Resources
    3 projects | /r/xtermdoom | 30 Jan 2022
    One way to do translucent windows. - Inspired by notcurses
  • Why are kitty and alacritty so popular? Where's the foot love?
    8 projects | /r/linux | 29 Jan 2022
    foot is great, dnkl is great. It's so far the fastest sixel-supporting terminal I've got to test XtermDOOM on. (I run iTerm2-based images against wezterm.)
  • Display images in the terminal
    5 projects | /r/Python | 29 Jan 2022
    It parses them, but then reduces to the 8/16 ANSI colors. Which makes translucent TUI windows not work. :(
  • I looking for a TUI liberary/framework with good aesthetics.
    17 projects | /r/commandline | 31 Dec 2021
    Jexer has almost no userbase, but is a full-fledged windowing system with advanced support for images and multiplexed terminals. Java. You might find the history doc interesting, it has quite a few links to other projects and standards. (Disclaimer: I wrote Jexer.)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing notcurses and jexer you can also consider the following projects:

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

FTXUI - Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

xterm.js - A terminal for the web

sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels

tcell - Tcell is an alternate terminal package, similar in some ways to termbox, but better in others.

awesome-tuis - List of projects that provide terminal user interfaces

python-prompt-toolkit - Library for building powerful interactive command line applications in Python

sixel-tmux - sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

magma-nvim - Interact with Jupyter from NeoVim.

dashing - Terminal dashboards for Python

FINAL CUT - A text-based widget toolkit.

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.