eDEX-UI is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.

Heavily inspired from the TRON Legacy movie effects, 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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• Fully featured terminal emulator with tabs, colors, mouse events, and support for curses and curses-like applications.
• Real-time system (CPU, RAM, 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.

(neofetch on eDEX-UI 2.0 with the default "tron" theme & QWERTY keyboard)

(Graphical settings editor on eDEX-UI 2.0 with the "nord" colorful theme)

(fx showing the results of a ipapi query on eDEX-UI 2.0 with the experimental "tron-disrupted" theme, and the user-contributed DVORAK keyboard)

Click on the little badges under the eDEX logo at the top of this page, or go to the Releases tab.

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.

You can't disable them (yet) but you can hide them. See the tron-notype theme.

I'm not done with this software just yet. I'm actively working on exciting new features that will make eDEX less of a gadget and more of a usable sysadmin tool. Notably, I'm researching remote monitoring, multi-monitor support, and a plug-in system which would externalize the module structure used internally.

They are!

Glad you're interested! See #272.

Thanks! If you feel like it, you can donate a few bucks to encourage me to build more awesome stuff.

• Linux Uprising Blog
• My post on r/unixporn
• Korben article (in french)
• Hacker News
• This tweet that made me smile
• BoingBoing article - Apparently i'm a "French hacker"
• OReilly 4 short links
• Hackaday
• Developpez.com (another french link)
• GitHub Blog's Release Radar November 2018
• opensource.com Productive Tools for 2019

IMPORTANT NOTE: the following instructions are meant for DEVELOPERS ONLY. If you're just a casual user please download the precompiled binaries available on the Releases tab.

on *nix systems (You'll need the Xcode command line tools on macOS):

• clone the repository
• npm run install-linux
• npm start

on Windows:

• start cmd or powershell as administrator
• clone the repository
• npm run install-windows
• npm start

Note: Due to native modules, you can only compile binaries for the OS you are compiling from. Note²: It is recommended to start building from a fresh clone to prevent the code minifier script from parsing an entire node_modules folder.

• make a fresh clone (recommended)
• npm install (NOT install-linux or install-windows)
• npm run build-linux or build-windows or build-darwin

Resulting binaries and assets will be in the dist folder.

Currently, development is done directly on the master branch. The version tag on this branch is the version tag of the next release with the -pre suffix (e.g v2.6.1-pre), to avoid confusion when both release and source versions are installed on one's system.

I use gitmoji to make my commit messages, but I'm not enforcing this on this repo so commits from PRs and the like might not be formatted that way.

Dependabot runs weeekly to check dependencies updates. It is setup to auto-merge most of them as long as the builds checks passes.

eDEX-UI's source code was primarily written by me, Squared. If you want to get in touch with me or find other projects I'm involved in, check out my website.

PixelyIon helped me get started with Windows compatibility and offered some precious advice when I started to work on this project seriously.

IceWolf composed the sound effects on v2.1.x and above. He makes really cool stuff, check out his music!

Of course, eDEX would never have existed if I hadn't stumbled upon the amazing work of Seena on r/unixporn.

This project uses a bunch of open-source libraries, frameworks and tools, see the full dependency graph.

I want to namely thank the developers behind xterm.js, systeminformation and SmoothieCharts.

Huge thanks to Rob "Arscan" Scanlon for making the fantastic ENCOM Globe, also inspired by the TRON: Legacy movie, and distributing it freely. His work really puts the icing on the cake.