Twin (computing)

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Twin
http://linuz.sns.it/~max/twin/screenshots/twin-on-X11.png
Developer:	Massimiliano Ghilardi
Latest release:	0.5.1 / 18-Jun-2003
OS:	POSIX
Use:	Window system
License:	GPL
Website:	[1]

Twin (Text WINdows) is a text-mode windowing environment written and maintained by Massimiliano Ghilardi; it draws and manages text windows on a text-mode display, like X11 does for graphical windows. It has a built-in window manager and terminal emulator, and can be used as server for remote clients in the same style as X11. It can display on Linux console, on X11 and inside itself.

Contents 1 History 2 Binary packages 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

The project originated as a MS-DOS program in 1993, but problems with multitasking on that platform brought further development to a halt . It only took up speed again when Massimiliano switched to GNU/Linux in 1999 and ported the project to his new platform. Features such as: console emulation, networked server capability and X11 support, were added.

[edit] Binary packages

• Twin is present in the stable branch of the Debian Linux distribution.
• RPM packages are available for other distributions.

[edit] See also

• GNU Screen
• splitvt
• Computer accessibility
• Text user interface (TUI)
• General Graphics Interface (GGI)

[edit] References

• Massimiliano Ghilardi: And what about Twin? 20 Mar 2000
• Georg C. F. Greve: Brave GNU World - Issue #47; Twin 2003

[edit] External links

• Twin - a Textmode WINdow environment at sourceforge.net