tuitop

TuiTop

The Luxury Console (construction in progress)

Using a graphical desktop?

Sure you are, because it's easy:

• Icons multiply the value of the screen -- Emojis could bring this to a terminal
• Discoverability is easy -- though, we could make menus in a terminal too
• Windows with resize, drag-and-drop and more makes things easy -- But isn't mouse access available in terminals?

Thinking in terms of X11

• Display Manager: VT100 or Linux Console -- github.com/snadrus/tcellblit -- render images fullscreen
• Compositor -- cview (branch of tview) has a great window renderer
• Window Manager -- TuiTop will provide this and a compositor
• Toolkit -- VT100 is the standard for consoles. Lets offer it. -- tcell-term -- A "new window" API is needed as well as more in the future.
• App Store -- Coming soon. A way to bring amazing TUI apps to everyone.

Progress

• In Progress: A working "final" layout, minus a usable new-window API

Next up:

• window close (on exit & on X) -- LOL! there is NO CLOSE for windows!
• Menu: exit (rm ctrl-C), settings, apps
• Add env TUITOP=/tmp/foo1234 (symlink to binary, allow ran like this to add window)
• Selection + Copy/Paste

Later:

• window auto-renaming github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 process.NewProcess(pid) [ .Children() .Name() ]
• in-house cview for box
• persist thru SIGHUP

Easy Starter Tasks:

• Show/Hide cursor
• Scrollback
• text selection within a window

Config folder: ~/.config/tuitop/

• bin/upt (TRUE TODAY)
• bin/ (src-build-binaries-linked-here)
• src/ git'd sources (FUTURE)
• menu/ items mods (FUTURE)
• config/ config files (FUTURE)
• logs/ logs (FUTURE)
• cache/ cache for which menu items have been installed and which cannot be (FUTURE)