I’m not sure this is the right community.
I’ve been hoping for a TUI frontend for Lemmy for a while, but unfortunately none came out and I’ve decided to build a proof of concept on my own.
It’s written in python with pythorhead, blessed and chafa.py and it’s quite janky.
Finally a Lemmy client for Linux mobile
That made me laugh so hard. Are there really no clients for linux mobiles?
There wasn’t a few months back when I checked
Have you looked at Textual? It probably has more functionality than blessed.
Textual is great, and the community at discord is very helpful and welcoming.
I did, but i was going for something really small and simple, more like an ebook reader than a webui.
For rendering high quality images in the terminal, check out the Kitty graphical protocol. I don’t know if they are any python libraries to use, but I think that they are. P.S. This seems to work well https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58138638/how-to-display-graphical-images-in-kitty-terminal-using-python
I went with chafa as it’s terminal agnostic and supports various modes.
Then again, I’m not really sure a tui frontend needs high quality image rendering. Earlier I even considered going completely 1bit braille or just ASCII just so that the image doesn’t take all of the focus at the expense of the post body.
As mentioned by another commenter, I believe opening the full image in an external viewer is a much better solution, not to mention easier to implement.
Wish someone would come with something like tut for mastodon.
While complex tuis are definitely not my cup of tea (I prefer cli tools to be simple, otherwise I would probably use a proper gui), I’m really happy that I’m not the only one wishing for a way to access lemmy from the terminal.
Something like rtv would be great!
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Do you have a github or codeberg link?
Maybe we should add it to awesome-lemmy?.
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It seems to be working for me.
Do you have a github or codeberg link?
I didn’t think anyone would have interest in it so i haven’t uploaded it. After new year’s I could clean it up a bit and host it on github.
Maybe we should add it to awesome-lemmy?.
I think it may be e a bit too early for that. At the current state it supports dynamic fetching of the feed in the background (quite buggy), paginating and displaying long posts and displaying top level comments only. At the current state it’s quite enough for me to enjoy a few (more like a few dozen) posts, but definitely not anywhere close to “awesome”.
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