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What does non-gui mean ?

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In a nutshell, there are three types of program interfaces. CLI, TUI, and GUI. GUI means it is graphical, buttons, menus, that sort of thing. CLI and TUI both rely the terminal (they are “non-GUI” I guess), where CLI means command line interface, things like “cd” or “tar” would fit into this. TUI means terminal user interface, and they usually involve keyboard navigation, but you still have menus and such. A good example I use a lot is rmpc, a neat music player! There are some TUI programs that also support mouse input, like aforementioned rmpc, but it’s not the focus.

    TLDR: GUIs have buttons you click with a mouse, TUIs have menus that can be navigated via a keyboard, CLIs mean you type commands into the terminal.

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  • RegularJoe@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GUI - graphical user interface, like a window.

    Non-gui, lacking a window, like running a command in a terminal (or command prompt).

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TUI. Text User Interface. Command line. Terminal. You interact with the application via the keyboard, rather than a mouse, touchscreen, trackpad, etc.

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    • sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Just of note, TUI stands for terminal user interface, not text!

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    • spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s also voice user interfaces! I’m not sure if it goes by another name, but blind people have their own way of using a phone, plus there’s a lot of voice control when driving or using Alexa and the like

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    • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can literally everything be tui ?

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      • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No but many things can be. There’s also a distinction between a CLI (command line interface) and TUIs (terminal user interface); like stuff built using ncurses which is a popular TUI library.

        Things that need graphics don’t work well as a TUI. For example, it would be pretty hard to make a 3d modelling application like Blender make sense in a terminal…

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yup. though a lot of things are more effecient and easily understood with GUIs than command line interfaces. Imagine a volume slider. on the other hand there’s a lot of things that are much more convenient in a terminal window.

        sure. you can use amixer sset Master 50%

        to set volume to 50%, but it’s faster and more intuitive to use the GUI for it.

        GUI: Image vs CLI: Image

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      • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes technically. Practically some software would be objectively awful without a graphical interface, like image modification.

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      • foodandart@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    GUI - Graphical User Interface

    “Non-gui” mean that the software does not have a GUI, this means that the softare uses text mode instead.

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  • Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It means there are no graphical user interface. It does not mean that there are any other user interfaces, but it does not rule it out either.

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  • HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Non gooey

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  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “Made by Oracle”?

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