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pytermgui
Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
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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.
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jexer
Java Text User Interface. This library implements a text-based windowing system loosely reminiscent of Borland's Turbo Vision system
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twin
Text mode window environment. A terminal emulator and multiplexer with mouse support, overlapped windows and networked clients. Text-mode equivalent of X11 server + VNC server
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sixel-tmux
sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics
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- A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)
- Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
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Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
There is https://github.com/directvt/vtm
It used to have a site where you could just connect via ssh and see interact with it in all its glory.
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Ask HN: Best computer that can't run a modern browser
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?
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Use terminal multiplexer for local pc?
vtm might be handy.
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help me compile a program please
~~~ $ 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 ~~~
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What's the most beautifully designed TUI-app you've used?
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!
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mprocs 0.2.2 - TUI for running multiple processes in terminal
Could be useful for fun projects like vtm.
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Stats
Basic vtm repo stats
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3,300
9.9
15 days ago
directvt/vtm is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of vtm is C++.
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