Ask HN: Simple GUI for Bash Scripts as you might've already seen, Chris Titus Tech is working on a Linux utility similar to winutil and in the first stream he struggled to find a replacement for the builtin windows gui that can be accessed through powershell. Now my question is what is the simplest library that could get this done on linux? PS. it can't be a tui |
linux framebuffer would be simplest -- one example library[1]. Pygame has many different backends that do non-tui (opengl, directx, windib, X11, linux frame buffer )[1]
Since shell is "string oriented", one would need to use a program such as cliffi[3] to make full use of lvgl and/or an associated shell plugin which provides lvgl shell extensions.
Python/gtk/pyqt[5]etc with usable gui at command line would be bit 'easier' than trying to graft bash with graphics at command line.
[7] : https://pypi.org/project/ascii-animator/
[6] : https://medium.com/@SrvZ/how-to-create-stunning-graphs-in-th...
[5] : https://python.plainenglish.io/modern-python-guis-with-pyqt-...
[4] : https://medium.com/@SrvZ/how-to-create-stunning-graphs-in-th...
[3] cliffi : https://github.com/ysaxon/cliffi
[2] pygame : https://www.pygame.org/wiki/about
[1] lvgl : https://blog.lvgl.io/2018-01-03/linux_fb
[0] tui : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface