vtm vs twin

vtm

Text-based desktop environment (by directvt)

twin

Text mode window environment. A "retro" program for embedded or remote systems, that doubles as X11 terminal and text-mode equivalent of VNC server (by cosmos72)

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vtm		twin
	Project
24	Mentions	14
1,534	Stars	612
2.1%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	5.4
7 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
C++	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

vtm

Posts with mentions or reviews of vtm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-12.

Ask HN: Best computer that can't run a modern browser
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 May 2023

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
Is there a way to have a full TUI desktop environment?
5 projects | /r/linux | 25 Apr 2023
Use terminal multiplexer for local pc?
1 project | /r/commandline | 15 Jan 2023

vtm might be handy.
help me compile a program please
2 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 5 Dec 2022

~~~ $ 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 ~~~
What's the most beautifully designed TUI-app you've used?
2 projects | /r/commandline | 27 Sep 2022

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
Fun terminal programs GO!
4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 13 Jul 2022
mprocs 0.2.2 - TUI for running multiple processes in terminal
7 projects | /r/linux | 23 May 2022

Could be useful for fun projects like vtm.
Vtm: Terminal multiplexer with window manager and session sharing
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 May 2022

1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2022
After years on Linux, I just discovered Vim & TMUX. They're fucking amazing.
10 projects | /r/linux | 3 May 2022

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

twin

Posts with mentions or reviews of twin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-25.

Is there a way to have a full TUI desktop environment?
5 projects | /r/linux | 25 Apr 2023

Twin - a Textmode WINdow environment, by Massimiliano Ghilardi https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
Asks the Textualize developers anything
3 projects | /r/Python | 13 Mar 2023

There is a twin project that is kind of neat, providing the highest fidelity interface possible (text mode, vnc, X gui) but doesn't have terminal multiplexing built in, or a browser interface.
Viewing Multiple Detached Windows
1 project | /r/tmux | 28 Sep 2022

Is it necessary to be in tmux? twin might be an easier solution: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://opensource.com/article/20/1/multiple-consoles-twin
What Is TTY?
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2022

Kind of related, Textmode Window Environment is interesting.
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
A couple screenshots are on the old SourceForge site.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
Fun terminal programs GO!
4 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 13 Jul 2022
Sound Setup Program - For my game in development
1 project | /r/dosgaming | 26 May 2022

Nice! I don't know why, but this reminded me of the port(?) of the MSDOS user interface to UNIX-like systems.
Hi! I made simple TUI desktop for Linux named TBox
6 projects | /r/linux | 4 Nov 2021

Kind of like TWIN? https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
Favorite tui programs?
5 projects | /r/commandline | 1 Nov 2021

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/ Seems its still getting some updates.
Best 💯
2 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 25 Oct 2021

If you've never used Twin then you don't know what youre missing!
The Xterm Window Manager Homepage
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2021

A similar concept is available as TWIN: the Textmode WINdowing environment. This is mentioned at the bottom of the "See Also" list at TFA.
https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
Screenshots at the (presumably old?) Sourceforge page:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vtm and twin you can also consider the following projects:

pytermgui - Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!

xserver-SIXEL - A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)

tmux - tmux source code

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

twin.macro - 🦹‍♂️ Twin blends the magic of Tailwind with the flexibility of css-in-js (emotion, styled-components, solid-styled-components, stitches and goober) at build time.

flameshot - Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

cinnamon - A Linux desktop featuring a traditional layout, built from modern technology and introducing brand new innovative features.

Turbo Vision - A modern port of Turbo Vision 2.0, the classical framework for text-based user interfaces. Now cross-platform and with Unicode support.

jcurses - Java Curses implementation

notcurses - blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

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