desto 0.1.4

tmux session manager

desto

desto is a modern, intuitive dashboard for managing and monitoring your tmux sessions. It provides a user-friendly web interface to start, view, and kill tmux sessions, monitor system stats, run custom or predefined scripts, and view live logs—all from your browser.

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Features

🚀 Session Management: Start, view, and kill tmux sessions with a single click.

📊 System Monitoring: Real-time CPU, memory, and disk usage stats in the sidebar.

📝 Templates & Custom Scripts: View predefined templates (like recursive pattern search) or write your own bash scripts directly in the browser.

🔄 Keep Alive Option: Optionally keep sessions running after your script finishes.

📜 Live Log Viewer: View live logs for each session in a scrollable, syntax-highlighted interface.

💎 Responsive UI: Clean, modern interface built with NiceGUI.

💾 Persistent Logs & Scripts: All logs and scripts are stored in dedicated folders for easy access and reproducibility.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• tmux

Check pyproject.toml

Installation

1. Install tmux

   Instructions for different package managers

   • Debian/Ubuntu

     sudo apt install tmux
     

   • Almalinux/Fedora

     sudo dnf install tmux
     

   • Arch Linux

     sudo pacman -S tmux
     

2. Install desto

   Installation Steps

   • With uv:

     uv add desto
     

   • With pip:

     pip install desto
     # or
     uv pip install desto
     

3. Run the Application

   desto
   

4. Open in your browser
   After starting, visit http://localhost:8088 (or the address shown in your terminal).

Functionality

Dashboard Overview

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Launch your scripts as tmux sessions

1. Set a tmux session name
2. Select one of your scripts
3. (OPTIONAL) edit and save your changes
4. Click "Launch"!

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Write new scripts and save them

If you want to compose a new script, you can do it right here, or simply just paste the output of your favorite LLM :)

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Change settings

More settings to be added!

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View your script's logs

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License

Shield:

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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TODO

• Explore possibility to pause processes running inside a session
• Add dark mode/theme toggle for the dashboard UI

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desto makes handling tmux sessions approachable for everyone—no terminal gymnastics required!