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Some desktop on cli (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/69895885

Is there a CLI/TUI start menu like tool, with favorites/categories?

Or even better, a whole status bar at the top/bottom (also without X/wayland/framebuffer), with time, battery, maybe even launched background processes listed you can bring to front?

No reason that we can't have some Desktop metaphor niceties on shell too, no?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, as it's own small applications, no multiplexing.

I've made a small battery/time indicator script years ago, that launches in top right corner using tput. But i'm sure something ncurses/Rust could do better.

Especially a "task bar" with background & processes seems a new idea for cli. Could use kill to bring them to front again or even freeze or save & restore them.