toot-tooi 0.16.1

Mastodon terminal user interface

tooi

tooi is a text-based user interface for Mastodon, Pleroma and friends. The name is a portmanteau of toot and TUI.

tooi is a re-implementation of the TUI included with toot using the modern and more powerful Textual framework.

• Source code: https://codeberg.org/ihabunek/tooi
• Python package: https://pypi.org/project/toot-tooi/ *
• IRC chat: #toot channel on libera.chat

* Could not get tooi as Python project name, if someone knows python people ask them kindly to approve this request.

This project proudly uses Pride Versioning 🏳️‍🌈.

Project status

This project is in its early days and things will change without notice.

While we aim to keep the project usable at all times, expect that things may break before we hit version 1.0.

Installation

The recommended method of installation is using uv which installs python projects into their own virtual environments.

1. Follow the uv installation guide to set it up.

2. Install tooi by running:

   uv tool install toot-tooi
   

Alternatively, if you know what you're doing, install both projects from pypi using your favourite method.

Usage

Launch the program by running tooi.

Run tooi --help to see the available commandline options.

On first login tooi will offer an account selection screen where you can log into your instance.

Key bindings

Note that you can see available bindings depending on current context in the status bar. To get a list of all available bindings, open the command palette (ctrl+p) and select "Keys".

Generic bindings:

• Arrow keys or h/j/k/l - move up/down/left/right
• Tab and Shift+Tab - move between focusable components
• Space or Enter - activate buttons and menu items
• Ctrl+p - open the command palette

Managing tabs:

• . - refresh timeline
• / - open search tab
• 1 - 9 - switch between open tabs
• Ctrl+d, Ctrl+w - close current tab
• g - open new tab ("goto")

Status bindings:

• a - show account
• b - boost status
• d - delete status
• e - edit status
• f - favourite status
• m - show media
• r - reply to status
• s - reveal sensitive
• t - show thread
• u - show toot source
• v - open toot in browser

Setting up a dev environment

Usage of uv for development is recommended.

Check out tooi and install the dependencies:

git clone https://codeberg.org/ihabunek/tooi.git
cd tooi
uv sync

Run the app by invoking:

uv run tooi

Using the console

To use the Textual console, run it in a separate terminal window:

uv run textual console

Then run tooi in dev mode so it connects to the console:

uv run textual run --dev tooi.cli:main

Code style and linting

Rule of thumb: look at existing code, try to keep it similar in style.

This project uses ruff to format code. Please run it on any modified files before submitting changes: ruff format <path>

Type checking

This project is configured to use pyright for type checking, and I recommend that you install the pyright language server if it's available for your editor. Currently it returns errors in some places, some of which are caused by the way textual is implemented. So it's not required to have zero errors before submitting patches, but it will indicate problems in new code.