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Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
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#43We've come full circle. We invented a GUI to replace the TUI, then reimplemented the GUI in the TUI. Long live the terminal!
Yeah. Am I missing the point that this leans so far into being as capable as a GUI as it can, that we lose something from starting in the terminal in the first place?
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#44I know I’m missing the obvious here, but is this a terminal multiplexer (like tmux)? Or a tiling terminal emulator (like iTerm, et al)?
The Youtube video embedded on their Github is titled "Tiling Window Manager with Drag&Drop" and from watching it, that appears to be exactly what this is. I don't know if or why it artificially constrains itself to only opening terminals.
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#45Now that we have high resolution, millions of colors, and unicode in our terminals, this is the logical conclusion.
Still doesn't make a lot of sense, but I like it. :-D
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't completely understand what is meant by "zooming", but kitty[^1] does that: you open ssh connection with `kitten ssh user@host` and pressing will open another ssh pane in the same tab, you can than IIRC to "zoom" and make tab take full window [1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/ >
not the same zooming. imagine a text mode ZUI -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
It really is tragedy that there aren't more ZUIs in the wild. I'd love a compositor (X11 or Wayland; it's probably not just a wm) that made all windows arbitrarily zoomable, but I lack the skill to make it myself.
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https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij
Been using Zellij for awhile and it is delightful! I am only a moderate terminal user, but I really like having some basic multiplexing features if I need them. My brain just could not hold onto the necessary tmux key combos with only intermittent use. Instead I find the Zellij commands to be more intuitive (and more discoverable thanks to the handy prompts...)
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
not the same zooming. imagine a text mode ZUI -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
It really is tragedy that there aren't more ZUIs in the wild. I'd love a compositor (X11 or Wayland; it's probably not just a wm) that made all windows arbitrarily zoomable, but I lack the skill to make it myself.
Zooming all windows at once exists as a Gnome shell extension.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/7263/better-desktop-z...
Probably it would be possible to zoom one window at once as a shell extension.
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#49I wish some web apps would adopt this pure text design language