desktop-tui

Desktop-TUI ️

[!WARNING] This is an experimental project made in 2 days. It is not meant to be used as is nor to become the new desktop environnement standard. Feel free to fork and send PRs

A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like).

Features:

• Parse shortcut files containing apps
  • Custom additional commands
  • Custom window options
  • Custom terminal options
• Display any application or command that uses stdout
  • Move and resize windows
  • Handle and display application error
• Change tilling options
• Can let the user select a file or a folder to use its path as a command argument
• Clock

How to use

Install

cargo install desktop-tui

Compile

cargo build

cargo build --release

Run

You can replace cargo run -- with desktop-tui

cargo run -- 

If no path is provided, desktop-tui will try using theses paths:

• Linux: /home/my_username/.config/desktop-tui
• macOS: /Users/MyUsername/Library/Application Support/com.Julien-cpsn.desktop-tui
• Windows: C:\Users\MyUsername\AppData\Roaming\Julien-cpsn\desktop-tui\config

Shortcut file

Example helix.toml shortcut file:

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License

The MIT license for this project can be seen here