Tut - a Mastodon TUI

A TUI for Mastodon with vim inspired keys. The program misses some features but they will be added when I get time.

Press C to create a new toot and N to focus on your notifications.

You can find Linux binaries under releases.

Currently supported commands

• :q :quit exit
• :timeline home, local, federated, direct, notifications
  • :tl h, l, f, d, n (shorter form)
• :blocking lists users that you have blocked
• :boosts lists users that boosted the toot
• :bookmarks lists all your bookmarks
• :compose compose a new toot
• :favorites lists users that favorited the toot
• :muting lists users that you have muted
• :profile go to your profile
• :saved alias for bookmarks
• :tag followed by the hashtag e.g. :tag linux
• :user followed by a username e.g. :user rasmus to narrow a search include the instance like this :user rasmus@mastodon.acc.sunet.se.

Keys without description in tut

• c = Compose a new toot
• hjkl = navigation
• arrow keys = navigation
• q = go back and quit
• ESC = go back

Explanation of the non obvious keys when viewing a toot

• V = view. In this mode you can scroll throught the text of the toot if it doesn't fit the screen
• O = open. Gives you a list of all URLs in the toot. Opens them in your default browser, if it's an user or tag they will be opened in tut.
• M = media. Opens the media with xdg-open.

Configuration

Tut is configurable, so you can change things like the colors, the default timeline, what image viewer to use and some more. Check out the configuration file to see all the options.

You find it in XDG_CONFIG_HOME/tut/config.ini which usally equals to ~/.config/tut/config.ini.

You can find an updated configuration file in this repo named config.example.ini. If there are any new configurations options you can copy them frome that file.

Install instructions

Arch or Manjaro?

You can find it in the Arch User Repository (AUR). I'm the maintainer there.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tut/

Debian

http://packages.azlux.fr/ (I'm not the maintainer)

FreeBSD

https://www.freshports.org/net-im/tut (I'm not the maintainer)

Build it yourself

If you don't use the binary that you find under releases you will need Go. Use a newer one that supports modules.

# Fetches and installs tut. Usally /home/user/go/bin
go get -u github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut

# You can also clone the repo if you like
# First clone this repository
git clone https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut.git

# Go to that folder
cd tut

# Build or install

# Install (usally /home/user/go/bin)
go install

# Build (same directory i.e. ./ )
go build

If you choose to install and want to be able to just run tut you will have to add go/bin to your $PATH.

On my TODO-list:

• Multiple accounts
• Support search
• Support lists
• Better error handling (in other words, don't crash the whole program)

Thanks to

• mattn/go-mastodon - used to make calls to the Mastodon API
• rivo/tview - used to make the TUI
• gdamore/tcell - used by tview under the hood
• microcosm-cc/bluemonday - used to remove HTML-tags