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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.

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Heavily inspired from the TRON Legacy movie effects (especially the Board 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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 Features
- Fully featured terminal emulator with tabs, colors, mouse events, and support for curses and curses-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 the wiki for more info.
- Optional sound effects made by a talented sound designer for maximum hollywood hacking vibe.

 Screenshots
!Default screenshot

_neofetch on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the default "tron" theme & QWERTY keyboard_

!Blade screenshot

_Checking out available themes in eDEX's config dir with ranger on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the "blade" theme_

!Disrupted screenshot

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

!Horizon screenshot

_Editing eDEX-UI source code with nvim on eDEX-UI 2.2 with the custom horizon-full theme_

 Q&A
 How do I get it?
Click on the little badges under the eDEX logo at the top of this page, or go to the Releases tab, or download it through one of the available repositories (Homebrew, AUR...).

Public release binaries are unsigned (why). On Linux, you will need to chmod +x the AppImage file in order to run it.
 I have a problem!
Search through the Issues 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.
 Can you disable the keyboard/the filesystem display?
You can't disable them (yet) but you can hide them. See the tron-notype theme.
 Why is the file browser saying that "Tracking Failed"? (Windows only)
On Linux and macOS, eDEX tracks where you're going in your termina

Top issues

Discussions

Latest release

2.2 Patch 8
👇 Scroll to the bottom of this changelog for downloadable binary releases

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 So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish

👋 Hey there!
It has been 3 years since eDEX's initial 1.0 release. Since then, 16 updates have been released with the help of 46 contributors, and they have been downloaded about 400 000 times (:exploding_head:!).

Last year I opened an issue to gather support (both moral and financial) to fund maintenance, as I was a student with little resources for a project of this size. Thanks to sponsorships and the generous donations of some of you I've been able t