Janit

Janit is a Multiplexer and a “command-line environment”. It gives you:

• Access to a menu for running desktop applications
• As many terminals as you want
• Simple Python methods that yield bash commands

Want it?

From source

• git clone https://hackersgame@bitbucket.org/hackersgame/janit.git
• cd janit
• sudo python3 setup.py install

By hand

• git clone https://hackersgame@bitbucket.org/hackersgame/janit.git
• Install pyte, readchar, curses
  • pip install pyte # Or install my patched version (better support for w3m) git clone https://github.com/ruapotato/pyte
• Link to bin
  • sudo ln -s /path/to/janit.py /usr/bin/janit

license

GPL3 By David Hamner

Janit Man:

• manual command

  • run 'manual' for additional help

• Navigation:

  • ctrl + left/right to open/change terminal window (That’s the multiplexing part)
  • ctrl + up/down with switch between terminal window and menu system
  • The from the menu without a command will switch to the Terminal too

• Menu system:

  • Run an application by entering: name
  • TODO: To see the menu of installed programs hit without text
    • sub-menus can be seen by entering the sub-menu name
    • (the sub-menu names will be ignore when the command is run)

• Target system:

  • From the menu you can enter a path to a file (~ and ./ will be turned into an absolute path)
    • at this point will show the applications that can run the file type
    • Running a command will now pass the target into the program as an argument
  • Run “done” to unset the target
  • Run “next” to try to toggle to the next alike file.
    • Example: a target of: “/home/Data/my Favorite Show/S01/e01.mp4” would become ../e02.mp4
  • Run “back” to try to toggle to the previous alike file

• [Removed] Splitting terminals [Removed]:

  • You can split any open terminal in janit
    • is shown in top left most corner
    • separated by spaces, will split horizontally
      • Example: 0 1
    • separated by slash, will split vertically
      • Example: 0/1
    • Example:
      • Open 4 windows with Ctrl + Right
      • Run: 1 2/3 4
      • You should see the terminal split 4 ways
      • Run: 1
      • You should only see one terminal again

Todo:

• History clear/loading when switching terminal
• redo menu
• key up and down (in menu and as history)
• show apps run more often first (for auto comp)
• .desktop with multiple entrys will not load right