Terminal User Interface (TUI)¶

Terminal or Text User Interface apps are light on resources and most effective for people who prefer keyboard driven control.

TUI's tend to use a lot less resources and therefore perform very well, regardless of operating system and available resources (CPU, Memory, Disk space, etc.).

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Disk Management¶

Viewing disk usage and coppying disk images to removable medial (e.g. USB memory sticks).

Caligula¶

Caligula is a TUI for imaging disks, often used to create a USB boot disk for Linux distributions.

A TUI alternative to the dd command.

Install options:

• GitHub release binaries for Linux and MacOSX (darwin)
• Arch Linux package pacman -S caligula
• Debian Linux has a request to package discussion

Caligula is created with the Rust Language and can be installed via the caligula crate.

ncdu disk usage¶

ncdu is an ncurses disk usage analyser.

apt install ncdu

sudo pacman -S ncdu

diskonaut¶

diskonaut disk usage explorer is a visual treemap representation of disk space usage. Delete files or directories and diskonaut will track how much space you've freed up in this session.

OS Monitoring¶

Btop¶

Btop latest release -

https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/releases/latest/download/btop-x86_64-linux-musl.tbz

Bottom Btm¶

bottom (btm) graphic process & system monitor.

apt install

sudo pacman -S btm

envx environment variable manager¶

envx environment variable manager.

Version Control¶

LazyGit¶

A Git client...

Gitu¶

Gitu git client inspired by Magit.

sudo pacman -S gitu

API tools¶

fx json navigator¶

fx for viewing and effectively navigating JSON. A TUI version of jq.

jwt-ui¶

jwt-ui Decoding and encoding JSON Web Tokens, for inspecting and debugging.

GitHub releases

pacman -S jwt-ui

Tracking Work¶

GitHub CLI¶

Jirust¶

Jirust Jira in the terminal.

Lt - Linear client¶

lt view issues from Linear.app issue tracker & project management tool.

NOTE: read only client initially

isw - pomodoro timer¶

https://gitlab.com/thom-cameron/isw

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File management¶

nnn¶

nnn

Install via OS package manager (Debian, Arch, etc)

apt install nnn mediainfo libimage-exiftool-perl atool patool vlock lftp sshfs

nnn.nvim plugin

Vifm Vim-like file manager¶

Vifm is a curses based Vim-like file manager extended with some useful ideas from mutt. Vifm uses common vim-style key bindings to navigate and manipulate files and directories.

Vifm is packaged for Linux/Unix based operating systems. An AppImage is available if an OS package is not available.

apt install vifm

igrep interactive grep¶

igrep

Hardware¶

kbt keyboard tester¶

kbt is a keyboard tester that supports multiple keyboard layouts.

NOTE: wayland support pending

Bluetui¶

Bluetui for managing bluetooth on Linux.

Blendr bluetooth analyser¶

blendr to inspect, search, connect, and analyse data coming from BLE devices directly from your terminal.

Designed for BLE engineers to useful search, create a direct connection to any characteristic and device with one command, and displaying your custom services names in the UI.

Website readers¶

Feedr¶

Feedr to manage and read RSS feeds with elegant visuals and smooth keyboard navigation.

Install from GitHub release or via Rust Cargo.

bbcli BBC News reader¶

bbcli news reader from BBC.co.uk with vim-style navigation.

--feed argument to show a specific news topic.

# List top stories
bbcli list

# List from specific feed
bbcli --feed world list
bbcli --feed technology list
bbcli --feed business list

To Categories¶

fzf-make¶

fzf-make Tui for make, just, pnpm, yarm, task. Search and browse task definitions, keeping a history of tasks used.

Install via Rust Cargo, Arch Linux, Nix, Homebrew

csvlens¶

csvlens explorer for Comma Separated Values (CSV data). Supports basic vim-style navigation.

xan¶

xam process CSV files from the shell, previewing data as graphs.

flawz¶

flawz to browse security vulnerabilities (CVEs) in the NVD database from NIST.

Install from GitHub releases, Arch Linux, Homebrew, Nix, NetBSD.

GPGTui¶

GPGTui for GPG interactive key management (listing/exporting/signing) with command-line fallback for complex operations.

md-tui¶

md-tui for viewing markdown files.

mprocs¶

mprocs

iamb matrix client¶

iamb Matrix client for the terminal that uses Vim keybindings.

oxker docker containers¶

oxker view and control docker containers.

ttyper¶

Test and enhance your typing skills. Typer provides a detailed report of your typing skills.

TTYPR¶

TTYPR is a simple, lightweight typing practice application.

Installed via Rust Cargo package manager.