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Text mode window environment. A terminal emulator and multiplexer with mouse support, overlapped windows and networked clients. Text-mode equivalent of X11 server + VNC server

18 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2018-05-31 · latest 2026-03-12

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  1. …experience, perhaps try out "twin": * https://opensource.com/article/20/1/multiple-consoles-twin * https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
    comment by throw0101d · 2026-03-12 · in An old photo of a large BBS (2022)
  2. How does usage compare to the old TWIN? https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
    comment by outofpaper · 2025-12-20 · in A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision
  3. …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_syste
    comment by lproven · 2025-11-12 · in The terminal of the future
  4. https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui
    comment by lproven · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)
  5. …a tonne of existing functionality from TWIN, which has been around for about 25 years or more. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system) And both of them seem to re-implement their own,…
    comment by lproven · 2025-09-11 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)
  6. …https://github.com/panzi/ansi-img and running it inside the truecolor branch of twin, i.e. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/tree/truecolor and it correctly displayed an example JPG I tried - no artefacts, and terminal remained responsive.…
    comment by cosmos0072 · 2025-06-21 · in Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
  7. …in vogue. This is not, as the function name suggests, a colon, but per ITU/IEC T.416 it should be: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/blob/truecolor/server/hw/hw... And not only should this have colons too, but per ITU/IEC T.416 there's a…
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-06-16 · in Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
  8. …(asian etc.) support, no right-to-left support. Right now I'm adding truecolor support (see https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/tree/truecolor ) - it's basically finished, I'm ironing out some remaining bugs, and thinking whether wire…
    comment by cosmos0072 · 2025-06-16 · in Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
  9. …impedance mis-matches over the years. But they seem to hinge on it actually having UTF-8 support. * https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/issues/4 * https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/issues/7 * https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/issues/8 However:…
    comment by JdeBP · 2025-06-16 · in Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
  10. Reminds me a bit of twin: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin I found out about it from this blog post nearly two decades ago: http://web.archive.org/web/20190120170204/http://www.termina...
    comment by Izkata · 2024-05-25 · in Tmux is worse-is-better
  11. In the same TUI spirit: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin A text mode environment and window manager, with terminal emulation, VNC-style sessions and viewers, and networked clients. Disclaimer: I'm the author
    comment by cosmos0072 · 2024-05-08 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  12. Kind of related, Textmode Window Environment is interesting. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin A couple screenshots are on the old SourceForge site. https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
    comment by rascul · 2022-08-13 · in What is TTY?
  13. …the Textmode WINdowing environment. This is mentioned at the bottom of the "See Also" list at TFA. https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/ Screenshots at the (presumably old?) Sourceforge page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/twin/
    comment by dredmorbius · 2021-10-09 · in The Xterm Window Manager Homepage
  14. Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system) , https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
    comment by exikyut · 2020-08-22 · in VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
  15. Looks like a modern version of twin https://github.com/cosmos72/twin
    comment by bobuk · 2020-08-22 · in VTM: A Text-Based Desktop Environment
  16. …joke of some sort, but if that's the case, someone else has been laughing for almost two decades: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/ greetings, eMBee.
    comment by em-bee · 2018-10-22 · in Show HN: termwm: A floating WM of terminals inside your terminal
  17. For a modern *nix equivalent of DESQview take a look at Twin: https://github.com/cosmos72/twin/
    comment by keenerd · 2018-05-31 · in WTF: A personal information dashboard for your terminal