vtm

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.

There are two modes - desktop mode and terminal mode.

• In terminal mode, it can work as a full-fledged stanalone terminal emulator.
  Just run vtm -r term [<your_shell>] or vtm -r [<your_shell>].
• In desktop mode it can wrap any console application and be nested indefinitely, forming a text-based desktop environment.
  Just run vtm.
  

Note: Accessing via ssh with auto-DirectVT mode outperforms the classic connection. Just run vtm ssh user@host vtm.

Supported platforms

• Windows
  • Windows 8.1 and later
• Unix-like
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • FreeBSD
  • NetBSD
  • OpenBSD
  • ...

Tested Terminals

^{Currently, rendering into a native GUI window is only available on the Windows platform; on Unix-like platforms, a terminal emulator is required.}

Binary downloads

Linux platform notes:

• Linux binaries are statically built using gcc-12/g++-12 on Ubuntu 22.04, provided by Github Actions.
• Runtime dependencies on Linux:

  • GLIBC 2.34
    

Documentation

• Quickstart
• Architecture
• Building from source
• Command-line options
• User interface
• Settings
• VT2D