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  - [x] Change tilling options  
  let mut menu = Menu::new("Tilling");

Not sure if "tilling" is meant to mean "tiling"? Comes from "tile" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tile

I do not plan to try this but I do wonder how well the terminal version of WordPerfect would work in this.

Also, if sixel support were added, it could support graphics. See:

https://github.com/taviso/wpunix/wiki/Terminals

If sixels somehow are already supported, then it does support graphics.

I use Vim with SLIME. Multiple splits, multiple tabs, multiple applications, can type stuff into a buffer and then SLIME can send that as commands to the applications.

For example, I use `psql` in a split, and doing `C-c C-c` sends the statement in my current buffer (delineated with newlines) to `psql`. I do the same with all other console applications.

It looks impressive but it duplicates a tonne of existing functionality from TWIN, which has been around for about 25 years or more.

https://github.com/cosmos72/twin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_(windowing_system)

And both of them seem to re-implement their own, inferior, versions of the TurboVision text-mode "widget toolkit":

https://tvision.sourceforge.net/

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

A merger could result in something greater than the sum of its parts.

Just use Emacs

I'm noticing that desktop-tui - at least over ssh - oesn't handle terminal resizing/SIGWINCH. Let me cogitate on why this might be the case.

It looks like this just runs on Nix? For decades I have enjoyed doing development remotely on leased servers or VPSs, living in tmux and Emacs. This project looks like a good direction for some types of developers. I would appreciate if they added a quick start guide with different options for getting started.

hehe it looks like DESQview]1] for MSDOS from 1985 :) Amazing idea!

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

What are the key commands to use this TUI?

Don't find details and trying the usual suspects didn't work.

Also, it was needed to install a missing library: sudo apt install libncursesw5-dev

I like the idea, but almost everyone needs a browser these days... Unless you work solo and don't need MS Teams/Google Meet/etc

It has graphics. They are just extremely low resolution, restricted to 16 colors, hardwired to dark mode and generated by abusing the terminal.

TUIs are fine if they mean better thought-out command line interfaces, but I can't see the sense in then if they actively try to recreate GUIs.

Latency on modern Wayland and/or X11 is just horrible. I'm constantly immersing myself on tty1 and tty2 with tmux, using tty8 for X11 with a Browser just for collab/communication software.

While I love CLI and terminals this is like going backward, heh. Instead of making lightweight and lighting fast GUIs where you can render all your terminals and some other graphics, people try to form TUIs again.

Yeah, they were great in 80s where HW was seriously underpowered. I run minimal IceWM and it looks and works great, and its quick :)

Reminds me of vtm

https://github.com/directvt/vtm

does it do session management (like screen/tmux, meaning i can detach from a session and reattach later) or do i have to run it in screen?