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Text-based desktop environment

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 4 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-10-08 · latest 2025-12-20

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  1. This immediately looked like vtm https://github.com/directvt/vtm I don't know much about terminals but VTM was fun to play around. You could `ssh vtm@netxs.online` (now dead URL) and play around with dragable windows.
    comment by smusamashah · 2025-12-20 · in A terminal emulator that runs in your terminal. Powered by Turbo Vision
  2. Reminds me of vtm https://github.com/directvt/vtm
    comment by xk3 · 2025-09-12 · in A desktop environment without graphics (tmux-like)
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    Vtm: Text-Based Desktop Environment
    story by klaussilveira · 2025-03-07 · 91 comments
  4. There is Text-based Desktop Environment https://github.com/directvt/vtm It gives a graphical interactive environment in terminal. Has some premade interfaces like spreadsheet, notepad and few others. It used to have a site where you could…
    comment by smusamashah · 2024-05-07 · in Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?
  5. The closest I can think of: https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm
    comment by svlasov · 2023-06-12 · in Ask HN: Is There a TUI Shell?
  6. …at all, just about any linux distro, boot into console mode, and then run something like this https://github.com/netxs-group/vtm The point is that the GUI desktop environments of almost distros- even the lightweight ones- are expensive. A…
    comment by jonahbenton · 2023-05-12 · in Ask HN: Best computer that can't run a modern browser
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    Ask HN: There was a TUI demo desktop over SSH. Does anyone remember... ?
    story by gjvc · 2022-10-24 · 1 comment
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    Vtm: Terminal multiplexer with window manager and session sharing
    story by lnyan · 2022-05-04 · 0 comments
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    Vtm: Terminal multiplexer with window manager and session sharing
    story by ShowalkKama · 2022-02-24 · 0 comments
  10. …heading. No direct affiliation; they've filed some bugs on Windows Terminal, however. :) [1] https://github.com/netxs-group/VTM
    comment by DHowett · 2021-10-08 · in Dos-like: Engine for making things with a MS-DOS feel, but for modern platforms