TUI of the Week 1

03 Mar 2023

Hi everyone!

This time im starting a new blog series centered around showcasing TUIs (terminal user interfaces) and libraries that can help you build them of the week inspired by ~/hyde’s CLI of the week.

Today im going to show you a TUI utility called wtf

wtf - aka wtfutil is a personal information dashboard for your terminal, providing at-a-glance access to your very important but infrequently-needed stats and data.

I wont be explaining all the features since its a really feature-packed program, but feel free to check it out if you think it fits your workflow :)

Installation

Pretty simple, if done via binary:

Make sure to replace [VERSION_HERE] with the current version of the program which you can check here

wget https://github.com/wtfutil/wtf/releases/download/v[VERSION_HERE]/wtf_[VERSION_HERE]_linux_amd64.tar.gz

mv wtf_[VERSION_HERE]_linux_amd64.tar.gz /usr/local/bin

chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/wtfutil

And you should be good to go.

Arch users can also use wtfutil or wtfutil-bin from the AUR

Usage

Just run wtfutil and you’ll be presented with an interface similar to this:

wtfutil’s interface

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