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Twin – A Textmode WINdow Environment

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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:

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