Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment
a year ago
- #terminal-emulator
- #open-source
- #windowing-environment
- Twin is a text-based windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator, and networked clients.
- Supports various displays including plain text terminals, X11, itself, and twdisplay for network-transparent display clients.
- Tested on multiple platforms including Linux (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc), Mac OS X (x86_64), and FreeBSD (i386, x86_64).
- Includes a tutorial covering user interface, client usage, compression, display management, fonts, installation, and system admin caveats.
- Licenses: Twin server and clients are GPL'ed; libraries libtutf and libtw are LGPL'ed.
- Documentation includes installation guides, configuration examples, and developer references.
- Download available from https://github.com/cosmos72/twin.
- Building requires Bourne-shell, make, ANSI C compiler, and recommended packages like x11-dev, xft-dev, ncurses-dev, zlib-dev, and gpm-dev on Linux.
- Manual configuration is discouraged as it may lead to build failures.