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(Project archived oct. 18th 2021)

eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.

Heavily inspired from theTRON Legacy movie effects (especially theBoard Room sequence), the eDEX-UI project was originally meant to be"DEX-UI with less « art » and more « distributable software »".

While keeping a futuristic look and feel, it strives to maintain a certain level of functionality and to be usable in real-life scenarios, with the larger goal of bringing science-fiction UXs to the mainstream.

It might or might not be a joke taken too seriously.

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• Fully featured terminal emulator with tabs, colors, mouse events, and support forcurses andcurses-like applications.
• Real-time system (CPU, RAM, swap, processes) and network (GeoIP, active connections, transfer rates) monitoring.
• Full support for touch-enabled displays, including an on-screen keyboard.
• Directory viewer that follows the CWD (current working directory) of the terminal.
• Advanced customization using themes, on-screen keyboard layouts, CSS injections. See thewiki for more info.
• Optional sound effects made by a talented sound designer for maximum hollywood hacking vibe.

neofetch on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the default "tron" theme & QWERTY keyboard

Checking out available themes ineDEX's config dir withranger on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the "blade" theme

cmatrix on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the experimental "tron-disrupted" theme, and the user-contributed DVORAK keyboard

Editing eDEX-UI source code withnvim on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the customhorizon-full theme

Click on the little badges under the eDEX logo at the top of this page, or go to theReleases tab, or download it throughone of the available repositories (Homebrew, AUR...).

Public release binaries are unsigned (why). On Linux, you will need tochmod +x the AppImage file in order to run it.

Search through theIssues to see if yours has already been reported. If you're confident it hasn't been reported yet, feel free to open up a new one. If you see your issue and it's been closed, it probably means that the fix for it will ship in the next version, and you'll have to wait a bit.

You can't disable them (yet) but you can hide them. See thetron-notype theme.

On Linux and macOS, eDEX tracks where you're going in your terminal tab to display the content of the current folder on-screen.Sadly, this is technically impossible to do on Windows right now, so the file browser reverts back to a "detached" mode. You can still use it to browse files & directories and click on files to input their path in the terminal.

We provide prebuilt arm64 builds. For other platforms, seethis issue comment, and the thread on issue#818.

No, after a 3 years run, this project has been archived. See theannouncement.

Glad you're interested! See#272.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: the following instructions are meant for running eDEX from the latest unoptimized, unreleased, development version. If you'd like to get stable software instead, refer tothese instructions.

on *nix systems (You'll need the Xcode command line tools on macOS):

• clone the repository
• npm run install-linux
• npm run start

on Windows:

• start cmd or powershellas administrator
• clone the repository
• npm run install-windows
• npm run start

Note: Due to native modules, you can only build targets for the host OS you are using.

• npm install (NOTinstall-linux orinstall-windows)
• npm run build-linux orbuild-windows orbuild-darwin

The script will minify the source code, recompile native dependencies and create distributable assets in thedist folder.

If you're interested in running the latest in-development version but don't want to compile source code yourself, you can can get pre-built nightly binaries onGitHub Actions: click the latest commits, and download the artifacts bundle for your OS.

eDEX-UI's source code was primarily written by me,Squared. If you want to get in touch with me or find other projects I'm involved in, check outmy website.

PixelyIon helped me get started with Windows compatibility and offered some precious advice when I started to work on this project seriously.

IceWolf composed the sound effects on v2.1.x and above. He makes really cool stuff, check out his music!

Of course, eDEX would never have existed if I hadn't stumbled upon the amazing work ofSeena onr/unixporn.

This project uses a bunch of open-source libraries, frameworks and tools, seethe full dependency graph.

I want to namely thank the developers behindxterm.js,systeminformation andSmoothieCharts.

Huge thanks toRob "Arscan" Scanlon for making the fantasticENCOM Globe, also inspired by the TRON: Legacy movie, and distributing it freely. His work really puts the icing on the cake.

Licensed under theGPLv3.0.