Favorite terminal GUI applications

[cgroza]

Apps that I use in terminal, some on Arch some on Ubuntu:

Emacs
Vim
irssi (IRC client)
ranger (File manager)
vifm (File manager)
htop
wget
pacman
apt-get
git
rtorrent

[BeRoot ReBoot]

This thread is called terminal GUI applications, as in, the ones that have an actual graphical text intefrace (with ncurses or another terminal interface library), not generic terminal CLI applications.

[cgroza]

This thread is called terminal GUI applications, as in, the ones that have an actual graphical text intefrace (with ncurses or another terminal interface library), not generic terminal CLI applications.

That would be a TUI.

[ilovelinux33467]

emacs
elinks
mc

[doorknob60]

Don't really use many that would be "terminal GUI", but yaourt (a wrapper around pacman with AUR support and some other stuff) sorta counts. The way it displays it's ouput is slightly interactive and is colorful, close enough for me. I also use vim a lot, don't know if that counts.

[forrestcupp]

I don't understand the point of using a GUI made for a terminal when you could just use a GUI.

[BeRoot ReBoot]

I don't understand the point of using a GUI made for a terminal when you could just use a GUI.

It doesn't need X, you can use it over SSH, it doesn't require you to take your hands off the home row (if it's well written), you can use it with a green font while wearing shades and trench coat and pretend you're a matrix hacker.

But seriously, it's mostly a matter of personal preference. I, for example, see no need to load up a graphical application to edit text files, manage files/processes or packages. Graphical applications have their uses, but the windows "everything must be done with a shiny GUI" paradigm just doesn't make sense to me. In fact, web browsing and video viewing are pretty much the only computing tasks that I do regularly that legitimately require a graphical interface.

[cgroza]

I don't understand the point of using a GUI made for a terminal when you could just use a GUI.

They are more light weight, keyboard driven, faster and you still can filter the output with grep .
Plus, you don't have to leave your terminal and you can run it in a separate terminal with screen.

[TeoBigusGeekus]

Plus, you don't have to leave your terminal and you can run it in a separate terminal with screen.

...or tmux

[kk0sse54]

It doesn't need X, you can use it over SSH,

You can forward graphical applications through SSH

it doesn't require you to take your hands off the home row (if it's well written),

There are graphical applications that don't require you to either (i.e. vimperator or whatever its called now)

you can use it with a green font while wearing shades and trench coat and pretend you're a matrix hacker.

That's just creepy.