The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface | Arcan
disclaimer: this is a technical post aimed at developers being somewhat aware of the problem space. There will be a concluding ‘the day of…’ post aimed at end users where some of …| Arcan
disclaimer: this is a technical post aimed at developers being somewhat aware of the problem space. There will be a concluding ‘the day of…’ post aimed at end users where some of …| Arcan
Our reference desktop environment, Durden, rarely gets covered here these days. This is mostly due to the major features are since long in place and that part of the project is biding its time with smaller fixes while waiting for … Continue reading →| Arcan
This is a technical description of the IPC system used throughout the Arcan project, from both a designer and developer perspective, with annotations on legacy and considerations along the way. It&…| Arcan
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely…| Arcan
Time to continue the journey towards better CLI shells without the constraints of terminal emulation. In the previous post we looked into the new commands list and stash. List was for providing an …| Arcan
There has been numerous quality of life improvements added to our terminal emulation liberated command-line environment, Lash, to the curses-like “libarcan-tui” it relies on, but partic…| Arcan
This is a higher level update on what has been going on with the current focus topic for Arcan releases, that is the network transparency (2020). It comes as a companion to the upcoming release pos…| Arcan
This article is an overview of accessibility and security efforts in Arcan “the desktop engine”: past, present and those just around the corner. It is not the great and detailed one I h…| Arcan
Time to continue to explain what Arcan actually “is” on a higher level. Previous articles have invited the comparison to Xorg ( part1, part2 ). Another possibility would have been Plan9…| Arcan
This is the follow-up to the ‘Arcan versus Xorg: approaching feature parity’ article which is recommended reading if you have not done so already. After that article, there was on…| Arcan
This article continues the long-lost series on how to migrate away from terminal protocols as the main building block for command-line and text-dominant user interfaces. The previous ones (Chasing …| Arcan
