cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/69895885
Is there a CLI/TUI start menu like tool, with favorites/categories?
Or even better, a whole status bar at the top/bottom (also without X/wayland/framebuffer), with time, battery, maybe even launched background processes listed you can bring to front?
No reason that we can’t have some Desktop metaphor niceties on shell too, no?
For a status bar, you can use tmux. Take a look at things like Oh-my-tmux, TPM, and more at https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tmux
Hmm…, not sure if it satisfies your requirement, but you can basically create your desktop from Emacs. You may find an example below.
See exwm
Do you mean like tmux?
No, as it’s own small applications, no multiplexing.
I’ve made a small battery/time indicator script years ago, that launches in top right corner using tput. But i’m sure something ncurses/Rust could do better.
Especially a “task bar” with
background &processes seems a new idea for cli. Could use kill to bring them to front again or even freeze or save & restore them.Sounds an aweful lot like multiplexing
