BSD Ports

sysutils/vtm 2025.09.12 DragonFly

Text-based desktop environment for your terminal

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
MIT
Categories
sysutils
Package size
1409.3 KiB, 4807.3 KiB installed

Description

vtm is a text-based application that represents its user interface as a mosaic of text cells, forming a TUI matrix. This matrix can be rendered in its own GUI window or in a compatible text console. It wraps any console application and supports indefinite nesting, creating a text-based desktop environment within your terminal.

In the other systems

The newest version among them is 2025.09.12, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlysysutils/vtm2025.09.12 newestnone known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDsysutils/vtm2025.09.12 newestnone known-[email protected]-
HardenedBSDsysutils/vtm2025.09.12 newestno data-[email protected]-
GhostBSDsysutils/vtm2025.09.12 newestno data-[email protected]-

Version history 1

  1. 2025.09.12

Upstream's version as each commit to the port's Makefile set it, or as this site first saw it in the system's packages; the tree's own revisions are not versions here.

Install

Binary package:

pkg install vtm

From DPorts:

cd /usr/dports/sysutils/vtm && make install clean

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

No port depends on this one.

Configuration

No options to configure.

Service scripts
none

Message after installing

Upgrades to vtm 2025.05.28 
==========================

vtm 2025.05.28 contains changes that are made to
configuration settings which are backward-incompatible
for previous versions of vtm. The configuration settings
file has changed significantly due to the introduction
of Pure XML with dynamic element referencing and templating.

See also: https://github.com/directvt/vtm/releases/tag/v2025.05.27