Re: vtm: tiling window manager with drag and drop

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote at 00:31 this Sunday (GMT):

Has anyone ever tried this?
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It is a text-based application where the entire user interface is
represented by a mosaic of text cells forming a TUI matrix. The
resulting TUI matrix is ​​just rendered either into its own GUI window or
into a compatible text console.
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It can wrap any console application and be nested indefinitely, forming
a text-based desktop environment.
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Sources:
https://github.com/directvt/vtm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofkoxGjFWQ

It's certainly a cool idea, but I don't see why you wouldn't just go
full terminal (tmux) or full ui (another wm). Maybe this would be useful
for SSH sessions, though?
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