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Top 17 C terminal-based Projects
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A few months ago, I came across Chafa — a command-line tool that turns images into ANSI/ASCII art. If you’ve never tried it, it’s kind of brilliant. You point it at a PNG or JPEG, and it spits out a wall of colored text that looks eerily close to the original image — all using braille, Unicode blocks, or ASCII characters.
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vifm
Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.
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Project mention: Show HN: Facad. The ls alternative making terminals cooler than GUIs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-09-30
Would a commander type TUI work for you?
https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc
https://github.com/ranger/ranger
https://github.com/jarun/nnn
There's also superfile and broot, but personally I feel like they try to do a little too much, might work for you though:
https://github.com/yorukot/superfile
https://github.com/Canop/broot
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dte
A small, configurable terminal text editor (mirrored from https://gitlab.com/craigbarnes/dte) (by craigbarnes)
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climenu
Compact application for creating text menus with executable entries. Use it to build straightforward static shortcut menus or dynamically generate advanced menus for more complex programs.
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C terminal-based discussion
C terminal-based related posts
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Chafa Frontend
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Does someone have an idea how one could create such an effect?
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Hacker News top posts: Sep 13, 2022
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Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century
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ANSIArt
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Kagi Search – Public Beta
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artem 1.1.0 Release
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Index
What are some of the best open-source terminal-based projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | chafa | 3,457 |
| 2 | vifm | 2,918 |
| 3 | TermGL | 335 |
| 4 | mc | 218 |
| 5 | dte | 192 |
| 6 | hed | 56 |
| 7 | dfshow | 52 |
| 8 | climenu | 31 |
| 9 | sclocka | 25 |
| 10 | midictl | 18 |
| 11 | pendulum | 12 |
| 12 | updog | 11 |
| 13 | netmon_cli | 9 |
| 14 | yace | 9 |
| 15 | sw | 4 |
| 16 | baracle | 4 |
| 17 | terminal-tool-builder-lib | 3 |
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