Endex is a fullscreen, cross-platform terminal emulator and system monitor that looks and feels like a sci-fi computer interface.
This project is a fork of eDEX-UI by GitSquared. The original eDEX-UI project was archived on October 18th, 2021. This fork continues development and maintenance of the codebase.
Heavily inspired from the TRON Legacy movie effects (especially the Board Room sequence), the original eDEX-UI project was meant to be "DEX-UI with less « art » and more « distributable software »".
While keeping a futuristic look and feel, Endex 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
cursesandcurses-like applications. - Real-time system (CPU, RAM, swap, 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 with the default "tron" theme & QWERTY keyboard
Checking out available themes with ranger using the "blade" theme
cmatrix with the experimental "tron-disrupted" theme, and the user-contributed DVORAK keyboard
Editing source code with nvim using the custom horizon-full theme
Build from source using the instructions in the "Useful commands for the nerds" section below.
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.
You can't disable them (yet) but you can hide them. See the tron-notype theme.
On Linux and macOS, Endex tracks where you're going in your terminal tab to display the content of the current folder on-screen. Sadly, this is technically impossible to do on Windows right now, so the file browser reverts back to a "detached" mode. You can still use it to browse files & directories and click on files to input their path in the terminal.
ARM64 builds can be created from source. See the building instructions below.
on *nix systems (You'll need the Xcode command line tools on macOS):
- clone the repository
npm run install-linuxnpm run start
on Windows:
- start cmd or powershell as administrator
- clone the repository
npm run install-windowsnpm run start
Note: Due to native modules, you can only build targets for the host OS you are using.
npm install(NOTinstall-linuxorinstall-windows)npm run build-linuxorbuild-windowsorbuild-darwin
The script will minify the source code, recompile native dependencies and create distributable assets in the dist folder.
This project is a fork of eDEX-UI by Squared.
- Original Author: Squared
- Windows Compatibility: PixelyIon
- Sound Effects: IceWolf
- Inspiration: DEX-UI by Seena Burns
- xterm.js - Terminal emulator
- systeminformation - System monitoring
- SmoothieCharts - Real-time charting
- ENCOM Globe - 3D globe visualization by Rob Scanlon
Licensed under the GPLv3.0.