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Julien-cpsn
desktop-tui
Rust2025–2025
Julien-cpsn / desktop-tui

desktop-tui

A desktop environment without graphics

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3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.2KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A desktop environment without graphics

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-09-08 12:07:14 UTC to 2025-11-12 13:35:29 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsSep 82025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 62025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsNov 10

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 82025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC211
Sep 152025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 222025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 292025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 62025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 132025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 202025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 272025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

4 sources
lproven·Nov 12, 2025
If we are going to broaden this to Screen and its "TUI" style features, then the most complete effort at a programmable TUI in the Linux space I've seen is `desktop-tui`. https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui It is incomplete but takes what is almost a side aspect of TWIN and runs with it. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin TWIN is nearly 20 now and does quite a lot. It even has a Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system) It runs on lots more OSes than just Linux.
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