twidgets 1.2.3

A tool to design and run dynamic, customizable dashboards directly inside your terminal.

🖥 Terminal Widgets

This tool lets you design and run dynamic, customizable dashboards directly inside your terminal. It combines modular widgets, real-time data updates, and flexible layout management for a highly interactive CLI experience.

Getting started • Configuration • Adding new widgets • Contributing • License

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🚀 1. Getting started

Installation from PyPI

1. Install: pip install twidgets
2. Initialize: twidgets init
3. Run: twidgets

⚠️ Requires Python Version 3.10+

Installation from Source

1. Clone this repository
2. Install dependencies: pip install .
3. Initialize configuration: python -m twidgets init
4. Run: python -m twidgets

⚠️ Requires Python Version 3.10+

For full documentation see Setup Guide

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✨ 2. Configuration

2.1 Changing standard colors and configuration in ~/.config/twidgets/base.yaml

If you remove anything or let anything blank, it will just fall back to the standard configuration.
However, you will get warned.

Example:

use_standard_terminal_background: False

background_color:
  r: 31  # Red value
  g: 29  # Green value
  b: 67  # Blue value
  
...

2.2 Configure your secrets in: ~/.config/twidgets/secrets.env

Example:

WEATHER_API_KEY='your_api_key'
WEATHER_CITY='Berlin,DE'
WEATHER_UNITS='metric'
NEWS_FEED_URL='https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/rss.xml?edition=uk'
NEWS_FEED_NAME='BCC'

2.3 Adjust widgets and layouts in: ~/.config/twidgets/widgets/*.yaml

Example:

name: 'clock'
title: ' ⏲ Clock'
enabled: True
interval: 1
height: 5
width: 30
y: 4
x: 87

weekday_format: '%A'  # day of the week
date_format: '%d.%m.%Y'  # us: '%m.%d.%Y', international: '%Y-%m-%d'
time_format: '%H:%M:%S'  # time

For full documentation see Configuration Guide

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⭐ 3. Adding new widgets

Adding a new widget to terminal-widgets is very easy—just create two files! For a simple widget, that does not require heavy loading (no update function) you only need to define a configuration and a single Python function.

3.1. ⚙️ Define Configuration (.yaml)

Create the configuration file at ~/.config/twidgets/widgets/custom.yaml and set interval = 0 for simple widgets:

name: custom
title: My Custom Widget
enabled: true
interval: 0 # For simple content
height: 7
width: 30
y: 1
x: 1

3.2. 🐍 Write the Widget Logic (.py)

Note: Make sure to name the .yaml and .py files the same way (excluding suffixes)

Create the widget's Python file at ~/.config/twidgets/py_widgets/custom_widget.py

For a simple widget, you primarily need to define the draw function and use add_widget_content

Example:

from twidgets.core.base import Widget, draw_widget, add_widget_content, Config, UIState, BaseConfig
import typing

# 1. Define the draw function for content
def draw(widget: Widget, ui_state: UIState, base_config: BaseConfig) -> None:
    # Initialize the widget title, borders, etc.
    draw_widget(widget, ui_state, base_config)

    # Add your content (list of strings)
    content: list[str] = [
        'Welcome to my new widget!',
        'This is a test.',
        'It was very easy to create.'
    ]
    add_widget_content(widget, content)

# 2. Define the build function
def build(stdscr: CursesWindowType, config: Config) -> Widget:
    return Widget(
        config.name, config.title, config, draw, config.interval, config.dimensions, stdscr,
        update_func=None,
        mouse_click_func=None,
        keyboard_func=None,
        init_func=None,
        help_func=None
    )

For full documentation see Widget Guide

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🧩 4. Contributing

Help the project grow: create an issue or pull request (on github)!

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📜 5. License

See License