cosmos72/twin

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Twin is a text-mode windowing environment that acts like a terminal emulator and multiplexer with overlapping windows, mouse support, and network-transparent display clients. It is the text-mode equivalent of an X11 server combined with a VNC server, allowing displays to be attached and detached on the fly.

Use cases

• run multiple terminal windows inside a plain text console
• detach and reattach terminal sessions across machines over the network
• use a mouse with overlapping windows in a text-only environment
• share a text-mode session across multiple displays like VNC
• replace screen or tmux with a full windowing text environment
• run a multi-window terminal on the Linux console or over SSH

When to choose

• you work primarily in text terminals but want window management and mouse support
• you need network-transparent attach/detach of text sessions across displays
• you want a text-mode alternative to X11 plus VNC
• you need a terminal multiplexer that works on the Linux console, X11, and remote terminals

When to avoid

• you only need simple session persistence and are happy with tmux or screen
• you need a graphical desktop environment with real GUI applications
• you require polished, well-documented client APIs for programmatic use
• you need support on operating systems beyond Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, or Android

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terminal-ui cli developer-tools developer-tools cross-platform bsd cli cross-platform terminal-multiplexer window-manager text-mode remote-display detach-attach mouse-support truecolor command-line linux macos android

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