Reminds me of the first edition of MS Windows.
A lot of firmware systems still do their "windowing" like this.
VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
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Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#22Tip: If you want to escape from any ssh session you can press this sequence:
1. Press Enter.
2. ~ Press Tilde.
3. . Press dot.
This disconnects from the remote host.
If you want more: `man ssh` and look for "ESCAPE CHARACTERS"
Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#23Tip: If you want to escape from any ssh session you can press this sequence: 1. Press Enter. 2. ~ Press Tilde. 3. . Press dot. This disconnects from the remote host. If you want more: `man ssh` and look for "ESCAPE CHARACTERS"
I think the sequence is "~.". I use it often.
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#24I like that, a lot. For the low bandwidth only.
Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#25Tip: If you want to escape from any ssh session you can press this sequence: 1. Press Enter. 2. ~ Press Tilde. 3. . Press dot. This disconnects from the remote host. If you want more: `man ssh` and look for "ESCAPE CHARACTERS"
I think the sequence is " ~.". I use it often.
Thanks. Corrected.
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#26I came here expecting an article about my beloved Emacs ;)
same here. didn't know there are other DEs besides Emacs
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#27Glad to see someone made this to save me the time! I've wondered if a TUI could replace some desktops for low end or embedded systems, or something to use on remoting into a datacenter etc.
Drawing text is the most expensive in a GUI.
That's only true for TrueType Fonts in graphical mode.
In text-mode, characters are "drawn" by simply writing their ASCII code point into VRAM and writing another byte (two 4-bit values really) in an additional "attribute" buffer to set the foreground and background colour.
Programmers can swap out the default character set to provide their own typeface and graphical characters for use as window borders, shadows, etc.
(S)VGA text-mode is as cheap as it gets in terms of computational complexity.
Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#28Tip: If you want to escape from any ssh session you can press this sequence: 1. Press Enter. 2. ~ Press Tilde. 3. . Press dot. This disconnects from the remote host. If you want more: `man ssh` and look for "ESCAPE CHARACTERS"
I think the sequence is " ~.". I use it often.
why not use the logout shortcurt ^d ?
this abort sequence is so much move involved vs just ^c ^d -ing
Re: VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
#29Glad to see someone made this to save me the time! I've wondered if a TUI could replace some desktops for low end or embedded systems, or something to use on remoting into a datacenter etc.
Drawing text is the most expensive in a GUI.
Depends. If you render it yourself in a frame buffer with anti aliasing and whatnot sure, but real text mode or using bitmap fonts is dirt cheap.
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#30It looks like DESQView for MS-DOS.
I really liked DESQView, too bad the industry had to move to GUIs :(