I use terminal specifically to not need a mouse. I use a great many TUI tools, but this one is never going to be one of them.
If it had i3/sway tiling behaviour/bindings, that would be great.
Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
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#52I 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.
The whole thing runs inside of a terminal, it would be hard to open anything else
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#54I always wondered if it was possible to have a TUI-style window manager inside the terminal. This is a fantastic project, whoever made it did a great job.
Something like dvtm?
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#55I know I’m missing the obvious here, but is this a terminal multiplexer (like tmux)? Or a tiling terminal emulator (like iTerm, et al)?
Neither, it's its own thing. Most similar to tmux, but you interact with it more like you'd interact with a graphical window manager.
So tmux with floating panes and drag-n-drop.
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#56We've come full circle. We invented a GUI to replace the TUI, then reimplemented the GUI in the TUI. Long live the terminal!
We've done it twice. Many terminals run under electron or equivalent browser interfaces. So we've implemented TUI in the GUI as well!
That’s also applies to literally every terminal emulator written since xterm.
Most of the modern terms these days have GPU acceleration too.
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#58I always wondered if it was possible to have a TUI-style window manager inside the terminal. This is a fantastic project, whoever made it did a great job.
My TUI desktop environment, complete with a tiling window manager, is called Emacs %) I suppose Vim can offer a comparable experience.
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#59has anyone tried building it from source?
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#60I know I’m missing the obvious here, but is this a terminal multiplexer (like tmux)? Or a tiling terminal emulator (like iTerm, et al)?
Reminds me a lot of the Apollo workstation.