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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!

1984 , (edited )
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I think it would be very awkward, because then you need to look for the right button, move your mouse to it, click it, and then start looking for the next button, click it and so on.

For simple scenarios where you just need to click install, the gui can be great, but I think it’s not good enough for most commands with flags and options.

someacnt_ OP ,

Hmmm, good point. Maybe it is impossible to do this correctly.

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.

gerbercj ,

You could create a list of commands in a text file, and then pipe that into fzf. With a light wrapper that would allow you to type a portion of the command to select and execute it.

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.

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