devpanel 🖥️

A lightweight terminal TUI dev companion for Linux — system stats, git repo monitor, thermal manager, memory inspector, boot optimizer & workspace launcher in one tabbed app.

Install

Recommended (pipx)

pipx install devpanel-tui
devpanel

Via pip

pip install devpanel-tui
devpanel

From source

git clone https://github.com/varunsukumar060/devpanel.git
cd devpanel
bash install.sh
bash run.sh

On first launch, ~/.devpanel/config.toml is auto-created with smart defaults for your system.

Screenshots

Running on Lenovo E41-25 • Linux Mint 22.3 • AMD Ryzen CPU • 8GB RAM

Features

Supported Distros

Configuration

All settings live in ~/.devpanel/config.toml — auto-generated on first run:

[general]
title         = "devpanel — Linux Dev Companion"
hud_refresh   = 3
repos_refresh = 10
stats_refresh = 4

[paths]
projects_dir    = "~/Projects"       # auto-detected on first launch
extra_scan_dirs = ["~/Documents", "~/Desktop"]

[workspace.profiles]
"10c4:ea60" = ["ESP32 (CP2102)", "code", "python3 -m serial.tools.miniterm"]
"1a86:7523" = ["Arduino (CH340)", "arduino-ide"]
"0403:6001" = ["FTDI Device",     "code"]

[thermal]
warn_temp = 60
crit_temp = 80

Keyboard Shortcuts

Power Profiles (Thermal Tab)

# Recommended — passwordless sudoers rule for cpufreq only
sudo visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/devpanel-cpufreq
# Add: YOUR_USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor

# Alternative — run with full path
sudo ~/.local/bin/devpanel

Roadmap

• Phase 1 — Core 6-tab TUI (HUD, Repos, Thermal, Memory, Boot, Workspace)
• Phase 2 — ~/.devpanel/config.toml auto-generation + Config tab
• Phase 3 — Distro-agnostic (apt/pacman/dnf/zypper), pyproject.toml, pipx-ready
• Phase 4 — v1.0.0 GitHub release with screenshots
• Phase 5 — Published to PyPI (pipx install devpanel-tui)

Author

Varun Sukumar K — @varunsukumar060
Electronics & Communication Engineering | Embedded Systems | Linux

License

MIT — free to use, modify, and distribute.