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petcat • today at 2:11 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I love the resurgence of TUI apps, but I wonder what the definition of "modern TUI" means in these cases. Does it basically mean just not using curses?

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Daviey • today at 2:29 PM

It means it has a dependency on X11.

  $ go install github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere@latest
  # golang.design/x/clipboard
  clipboard_linux.c:14:10: fatal error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
    14 | #include <X11/Xlib.h>
       |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
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