Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)

> Also.. if it was possible to use this hotwire from a virtual console or just a plain xterm,
> then that would be fantastic. Screen beats the absolute living crap out of any sort of
tabbed
> system I've ever seen in my life.
> 
> Basically I have nothing against nice friendly gui systems.. that's very good. Even if you
> still end up requiring a special python gui to run hotwire, I would like to be able to
disable
> the tab bar, menu bar, and the scroll bar and still be able to use it.

I definitely expect that everything should be able to be done without a mouse - I think that
is possible now, and I have some other ideas that would extend that (though they're not at the
top of my list to do yet ...)
http://groups.google.com/group/hotwire-shell/browse_threa...

Also, the code is intended to be split so that the core code is separate from, and does not
depend on, the UI code.  (Note this split is currently not clean - there are dependencies).
This would allow other UIs to be written, including a UI that can run inside an xterm.  It
should also (eventually) allow the core code to run on a remote machine while the GUI runs
locally.

But don't hold your breath (unless you want to help make the split cleaner and write the xterm
UI ;-)