This thread is for those people who are tired of all this GTK/QT bloated nonsense and just want their programs to work.
Here we share our favourite CLI & TUI applications and looking for minimalistic alternatives to GUI software.
CLI & TUI Softwate
Owen Nguyen
Liam Parker
Is there a good torrent client for a terminal? I use rTorrent but it's kinda awful.
Alexander Anderson
midnight commander is TUI I guess though I don't see the point since it's not like a GUI file manager uses a lot of resources anyway.
Nolan Hall
Dat mdc or whatever terminal.
Thomas Lewis
mocp is wonderful
Jordan Diaz
tmux is essential
Jonathan Diaz
that terminal looks fucking gorgeous
Adrian Brown
*blocks your path*
Lincoln Peterson
Thumbnails are useful tho.
Gabriel Adams
There is transmission and tools like transmission-remote-cli (abandoned, but there are forks). But I think transmission is pretty bad too, but at least the interface doesn't hang because the tracker one of your torrents are trying to connect to isn't responding.
The transmission daemon requires that the web interface is active to be able to use any kind of management application, and it likes to spam syslogs with mundane bullshit. I have the following in my crontab to start transmission kinda disabled and using its own log file (my log file is currently 45 MB).
>@reboot TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME=/dev/null transmission-daemon --logfile ~/.transmission-daemon.log
Hunter Sanchez
tmux
vim
ranger
irssi/weechat
mpv (can play audio from command line or control an opened gui from the shell you spawn it from)
finch
htop
mpd + ncmpcpp
deluge-console
ncdu
nmtui
Aiden Jenkins
mutt
newsboat
w3m
emacs
vifm
Michael Adams
mpsyt (mps-youtube) is nice for searching YouTube in a TUI, and of course uses youtube-dl to play/download the videos.
A few TUI web browsers have been posted already, but I use lynx mainly because it also has gopher support (there are other dedicated gopher clients, but lynx is still one of the best I've seen)
This project was started as an alternative to a proprietary Java-based GUI system used at work, so I could get stuff done in a CLI:
github.com
Angel Jenkins
>gopher support
but why would you need that?
Adrian Howard
because I browse gopherspace regularly and maintain a gopherhole
Nathaniel Cooper
file managers are one of the few programs where having a GUI is actually preferable to terminal interface.
Pretty much everything else (except browser) works better in a terminal.
Charles Gomez
I see the argument for browsing files, especially pictures/videos with thumbnails, but for actually managing (copying/moving/deleting) them seems l think I prefer having globbing/find than selecting a bunch of files manually.
Carson Smith
What computer is that?
Lucas Turner
Sucks: Making a thread for this
Rocks: Hitting up suckless.org
Benjamin King
macbook pro
Jaxson Flores
Christopher Bailey
Thinkpad T420
Suckless should be taken with a grain of salt. Some of the stuff they have is pretty cool, but their ”useful features are bloat” mentality shouldn't be taken seriously.
Parker Torres
I'm just saying, if your program can't fit in under 10000 lines of code, it can't be all that useful
Not like this needs to be spelled out, it's pretty much self-evident
Nicholas Foster
Hudson Jones
itt: tryhards
Ram is cheap, just get couple sticks more and be done with.
John Collins
I did but I'm still unable to properly browse websites from the terminal. What now?
Nathaniel Wood
good thread OP, hope this becomes a general.
on that note, any good terminal browser for Jow Forums other than yottu
Carter Wood
TUI is a completely wrong concept. Terminal escape codes were a mistake.
Logan Robinson
Deluge has a console front-end.
Transmission has a CLI.
Grayson Martinez
In my opinion we should get rod of guis all together. command line only, things would be a lot easier. Also you can only fap to ascii porn.
And I am not even joking.
Lucas Murphy
aspergers-utility.deb
Jordan Nelson
Plan 9 and Oberon where it was inspired from are "TUI on the rocks."
What you can call graphical text-based interface.
Robert Gutierrez
I'm starting to get back into programming after a long hiatus. I have rudimentary knowledge of python, however I want to learn C(I dabbled with it before actually learning python).
Are there any good books on how to design TUI's?
Jackson Jenkins
link to this site should be in the OP
inconsolation.wordpress.com
It has lots of reviews of programs for terminal but it's no longer maintained.
Liam Davis
thanks man
Anthony White
This
Also this
Jose Cox
You could try a book on ncurses.
Adrian Butler
There's an application called saidar that does system monitoring. It shows disk usage, both read/write and used/free space. It also shows you RAM, swap, CPU loads, users and process, date/time/ uptime, hostname, etc. It's little bit like top or htop but less busy. and easier to read.
>I don't see the point since it's not like a GUI file manager uses a lot of resources
It comes in hand when you're running on a very small amount of RAM. I've ran Linux on my PS2 and that thing has 32MB RAM and a 300MHz MIPS CPU. It can barely run the most minimal window managers, which you basically only use to manage terminal windows that run shells, editors, and other CLI programs.
I haven't actually done this since the early 2000s when trying to learn MIPS assembly, and replaced this setup with a nice SGI machine not long after.
Eli Reed
Anyone itt know how I can get the following to all play nicely?
1. a tty terminal
2. tmux
3. two or more framebuffer applications
Hunter Robinson
Dvtm is a non-bloated tmux alternative. It can tile windows and has an edit mode but it doesn't have session management (you have to use a separate tool for this)
Jeremiah Bennett
Recommend me an irc client
Dominic Rogers
irssi or weechat more than enough.
Jack Ramirez
I use transmission-cli caus it's simple and just werks.
Robert Walker
No. Fuck you and fuck tmux.
Justin Price
ahhh the vt100 *cracks* now that was a terminal *sips*
Jeremiah Bailey
Well it literally was yeah
Caleb Parker
How the fuck do you install WordPerfect in DOSBox when it doesn't let you swap floppy images anymore?
Noah Anderson
Extract the files from the floppy images & put them all in the same directory, before you install.
Isaiah Morris
Now I want an MDT-9100-386