Ly is a lightweight TUI (ncurses-like) display manager for Linux and BSD.
↫ Ly GitHub page
That’s it. That’s the description.
I’ve been wanting to take a stab at running a full CLI/TUI environment for a while, see just how far I can get in my computing life (excluding games) running nothing but a few tiled terminal emulators running various TUI apps for email, Mastodon, browsing, and so on. I’m not sure I’d be particularly happy with it – I’m a GUI user through and through – but lately I’ve seen quite a few really capable and just pleasantly usable TUI applications come by, and they’ve made me wonder.
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I for one would love to see how that experiment pans out! I grew up using DOS and TUI apps like QBasic and a word processor called PFS First Choice ( https://winworldpc.com/product/pfs-first-choice/3x ), so they have a special place in my heart. 🙂
For years I’ve actually been a Linux terminal guy, only TUI, not even a GUI, this is long time ago..
I’ve used to run 9wm, which by default has no icons, etc. just a right click menu on the ‘desktop’ (and I think an other way to reach it from the application window bar ? although they were also very minimal) with a way to start a few new applications. The most prominent application was the terminal. I’ve found this to be a better minimalism solution than TUI.
That sounds like an incredibly interesting experiment! Ly as a TUI display manager seems like a great starting point for diving into a full CLI/TUI environment. With the increasing sophistication of TUI applications, it’s worth exploring how far one can go without relying on a traditional GUI.
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