This Graphical Desktop Environment Is TEXT BASED??

Most of us live our Linux lives in a graphical desktop environment but what I told you there were other options out there like one that's text based but still acts like a regular GUI

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[methos]

You forgot GPM, you can use your Mouse in the TTY ;-)

[jimmyneutron]

I swear this is what people think Linux users use

[The_Wandering_Nerd]

This is highly reminiscent of the "text-GUI" interfaces you would find in certain later MS-DOS programs, like DOS Shell and MS-DOS Edit.

[david]

I love seeing people trying out their own ideas about things like user interfaces. There is value in exploration and learning how such things work, not to mention lots of fun. Let's personalize computation on our personal computers, guys.

[zzco]

I love twin, honestly. It's great for a remote UI over SSH.

[Mempler]

I would love to see this in a graphical-ish environment. As in, it straight up uses DRM with OpenGL ES for graphic accelerated rendering and use it to render TrueType colours, fonts etc.


But tbh, I can see this very useful on a server environment

[mjdxp]

I always wondered if it'd be possible to emulate an Xorg session in a tty by rendering the screen in ASCII. I don't think it is, but this is pretty cool too.

[orbatos]

Rewatching in a framebuffer now out of spite.

As a big fan of the old text mode windowing environments (and mouse support) I like the idea of this, but want graphical application support. There is no reason this can't be done in Wayland, Unicode has plenty of widget coverage.

[colly]

i was legitimately thinking about making something like this yesterday! i think a windowing protocol that relies on text buffers and stuff, similar to emacs, would be a neat concept. if you bridged it with X or wayland, you could have little terminal-based applets that show up as GUI windows, independent from a terminal.

[subnumeric]

Seeing w3m reminded me of an interesting project I don't think you've covered: Carbonyl, a Chromium-based terminal browser.

Also, cool video, it's basically a "floating pane" version of tmux. putting it like that, I'm not too surprised it's a thing.

[PenguinRevolution]

This also looks like it would be useful in a server environment, some people sometimes want a simple graphical environment on servers and this might fit the bill.

It all kind of looks like dos shell or some other similar programs, which beings back some of nostalgic memories of using a computer back when I was a kid.

[brunothedev]

it would be cool if someone did this, but you could draw normal applications

[bahathir_]

Thanks for introducing the TWin. I used this many-many years ago as my main 'desktop'. It was cool when using IRC in a window and playback movie in ASCII Art using MPlayer in other window, at the same time. But, when I found GNU Screen, I not using it anymore. Anyway, it is still a sweet memory.

[CristianMolina]

Sure, most oldies remember turbovision, but when i switched to Linux in the 90s and my graphics card was not supported in X i look at a Turbovision clon and there was one very functional

[tomperconti]

Very enjoyable video, thank you for putting that together. 👍 This is a classic example of what's old is new again. Those of us old cavemen will remember Desqview that ran of top of DOS back in the mid 1980's. During my career at IBM, we ran a similar environment called TopView. It's difficult to imaging how groundbreaking it felt to be able to have more than one thing on the screen at a time. 🤣

[trajectoryunown]

This looks like it'll be a great desktop environment for low power single board computers like the Pi Zero.

[abitterberry]

That's actually really nice! I have a VM that I use as a router/firewall for all my other VMs, so it's kind of a waste of resources to run a graphical env on it. Definitely gonna use Twin for that one.

[FengLengshun]

I will never use this, but it is still beautiful. Exquisite. A part of me kinda want this accessible in any TTY by default.

[tireseas]

Now this why I love the channel. Cool toys I'd almost surely never see otherwise.

[anon_y_mousse]

If not for browsing the internet and playing certain games I definitely would live in the terminal. As it is now I spend a vast quantity of my time there, but this definitely intrigues me. Although, I've never really been a fan of the blocky terminal cursor, so that's another plus for GUI environments.