Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

Summary

Twin - a Textmode WINdow environment Version 0.9.0 Twin is text-based windowing environment with mouse support, window manager, terminal emulator, networked clients and the ability to attach/detach mode displays on-the-fly. It supports a variety of displays: plain text terminals: Linux console, twin's own terminal emulator, and any termcap/ncurses compatible terminal; X11, where it can be used as a multi-window xterm; itself (you can display a twin on another twin); twdisplay, a general network-transparent display client, used to attach/detach more displays on-the-fly. Currently, twin is tested on Linux (i386, x86_64, ARM, ARM64, PowerPC, Alpha, Sparc), on Mac OS X (x86_64) and on FreeBSD (i386, x86_64). I had yet no chance to seriously test it on other systems. The following screenshot shows an example of twin with various clients: Documentation Tutorial A quite complete tour of twin features: the user interface, how to use twin clients, compression, attaching/detaching displays, fonts. It also contains installation instructions and some caveats for system administrators. COPYING License: twin server and clients are GPL'ed software. COPYING.LIB Library license: the libraries libtutf, libtw are LGPL'ed software. INSTALL Quick compile/install guide. twinrc A detailed example of ~/.config/twin/twinrc look-n-feel configuration file. The following documentation is useful mostly to developers: Configure Description of twin configuration options with the meaning of every single one. README.git Hints to build twin from GIT repository. README.porting Tips and warnings to compile twin on unsupported OSes. libtw.txt reference API for programmers who want to write twin clients (INCOMPLETE). libtw++.txt reference API for programmers who want to write twin C++ clients (INCOMPLETE). Getting twin Since you are reading this README, you probably already have it, anyway twin can be downloaded from https://github.com/cosmos72/twin Building and installing twin For detailed instructions...