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A strange "terminal emulator" idea I got, tho I bet this exists

I know that GUI does not cover most of functionalities, for good reasons - being specialized to task (like files app), it provides more fine-grained experience.

Yet, I find that there are common commands which is terminal-only, or not faithfully implemented. for instance,

  • Commands like apt update/apt upgrade might be needed, as GUI may not allow enough interactions with it.
  • I heard some immutable distros require running commands for rollbacks.

These could cause some annoyance for those who want to avoid terminal unless necessary (including me). Hence, I bet there are terminal emulators which restricts what commands you could run, and above all, present them as buttons. This will make you recall the commonly used commands, and run them accordingly. Is there projects similar to what I describe? Thanks!

IHeartBadCode ,

Are you perhaps looking for something like this? Or something else.

That said, learning the terminal commands is a much better path. You'll develop a richer understanding of the various tools with repetition.

someacnt_ OP ,

I already am quite familiar with terminal, and am aware of how to handle it. I do have issues that I am using plain old bash, but it’s not unfamiliarity that is my problem.

It’s more that there are common commands that I am dealing with, I (somehow) don’t like entering it in terminal format.

About warp, that seems roughly what I want, but the AI part irks me. I dunno, I gotta look more dseply.

oo1 ,

something like raspi-config ( i know that’s console based GUI, but it’s gui to me), or even the endevourOS launcher screen?

someacnt_ OP ,

Yeah, these kinds of stuffs would fit my bill. TUI would work just as well.

gomp ,

I bet that doesn’t exist: nobody would put work in a program that lets just restricts what you can do with zero usability advantages (ok someone might)

If you fear you might run unsafe commands just save whatever you are comfortable running in scripts and restrict yourself to run those instead of manually typing commands you don’t fully remember/understand.

BTW: topgrade will detect what needs updating in your system (your distro’s package manager, flatpak, python stuff, … whatever) and update all the things

BTW: “terminal emulator” is the program that shows you text in a window, the program that runs inside it and validates/interprets your commands is a “shell” (the one you are using is most probably bash)

someacnt_ OP ,

Calling it “terminal emulator” was a poor word usage on my end, yeah. I do not fear myself running command line though. I just want to avoid CLI.

AbouBenAdhem , (edited )

Rather than creating a custom terminal app, could you create a user that only had permission to run the restricted commands, with a profile script that gets run at login and offers a menu of common tasks?

someacnt_ OP ,

Interesting, does this exist? That would be a great one to use.

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