yaft

I've made a primitive tools to record GIF files. There's many tools like this, but I was inspired by VHS[0]. The thing is, VHS requires ffmpeg and chromium to create GIFs and videos, which is a nice approach, but it's too heavy for my taste. Basically, I forked a simple terminal emulator[1] written in plain C and added commands to write output straight to a GIF file[2]. It's stil a WIP pet-project, but I believe it could be usefull for someone, for example, to create animated illustrations for documentation, blog posts and such. [0] https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/ [1] https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft/ [2] https://github.com/lecram/gifenc/

dvtm does tiling and tabs Since dvtm also works as a terminal emulator, it seems to me that you could use loadkeys to setup various keycodes to send the proper vt100 escape codes. I've not tried it, but see no reason why it shouldn't work. If you just want "No X install" you can use a frame buffer terminal (fbterm was one I used to use, but it doesn't appear to have been updated in a while, perhaps there is a spiritual successor, or maybe it already does what you want) [edit] YAFT https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft looks like it's more up to date than fbterm.

I strongly suspect that at this point most people will in fact have one of the several tools that preceded kmscon by some years and are still around: zhcon (http://zhcon.sourceforge.net/), jfbterm (http://jfbterm.sourceforge.jp/), fbterm (https://code.google.com/p/fbterm/), yaft (https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft), fbpad (http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpad.git), and so forth.