Desktop-TUI: A Graphics-Free Desktop Environment

2025-09-11
Desktop-TUI: A Graphics-Free Desktop Environment

Desktop-TUI is a tmux-like desktop environment without a graphical interface. It parses shortcut files to launch applications and commands, supporting window movement, resizing, tiling options, and handling application errors and GNU application crashes. Users can select files or folders as application or command arguments. Currently using ncurses (with color issues), it plans to switch to Crossterm. Install via `cargo install desktop-tui` and run with `cargo run -- `. Shortcut files (e.g., helix.toml) use TOML format to define application names, commands, and arguments.

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