tdlib-purple VS vtm

For telegram, you could try something like tdlib-purple along with finch. It's basically the console version of pidgin if you've used that before, and it was really quite nice when I last used it a decade ago. :)

There is also a pidgin plugin tdlib. Works for me.

Yep. And not only bots - 3rd-party clients are much better tolerated compared to wa/signal.

Telegram has a clean, compact 3rd-party client that just works: https://github.com/ars3niy/tdlib-purple/

Signal has arcane, bloated (multiple dependencies, requires Java), and brittle client library https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-signal (there are other semi-abandoned projects)

WA 3rd-party clients are flat-out dead: https://github.com/davidgfnet/whatsapp-purple (and bunch more, all dead, or half-dead) Plus, WA would ban people they suspect to use 3rd-party clients.

Any computer at all, just about any linux distro, boot into console mode, and then run something like this

https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm

vtm might be handy.

~~~ $ wget https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm/releases/latest/download/vtm_linux_amd64.tar.gz $ tar xvf vtm_linux_amd64.tar.gz $ vtm_linux_amd64/vtm ~~~

Does a 'TUI' based window manager count? (on linux) This program let me have numerous terminal windows and do a lot of other neat tricks with the terminals. I think it was VTM https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm

Could be useful for fun projects like vtm.

For absolute revelation, use vtm, a whole Desktop environment for the terminal. In addition to tiling (like tmux) it supports floating window management.