Hello everyone! I am very very happy to finally announce that I published my project: minecraft-tui!

So, what is it, how does it work, and _why_?

Well, I love TUI apps. I am a linux enjoyer, it just feels so much better in my opinion to use a TUI/CLI app instead of a GUI app. Minecraft-tui is a TUI app that allows you to launch minecraft instances trough a TUI instance. It opens a floating terminal, shows currently available instances, lets you open them, edit the files in them, and see info about them.

_How does it work?_ Under the hood, its a bash script... I could not, for the life of me, get rust to launch the instance. It would break the entire project when I tried it, and so I just made a script to run the instances. At some point the script will be deprecated, I will try to still make it so that you dont need a bash script for it. But for now, its a "rough sketch". You can check the github page to find out more about it, I wont explain it all here because it would be too long.

_Why?_ As I said before, I love TUI apps. They are cleaner, using a keyboard feels better, and its a fun little project. it is not, by any means, a minecraft launcher. It is just a "quick opener" (I wasnt sure what to call it lol).

If you have any issues, let me know on the github page!

PS: I have only tried it on i3-wm!! I will try to test it on other WMs but it will take some time.

PS2: It only works with Prism Launcher for now!! The whole project is centered about Prism Launcher (installed from flatpak), as I use Linux Mint, and Prism is not in the official repos. In the future I will make it so it will check for the installation, and I hope I will make it work in more scenarios, other than my use case.

Please try it out if you want, enjoy, and let me know if there are any issues, or if you have any ideas on what to change! <3

github link