ncurses (new curses) is a programming library for creating textual user interfaces (TUIs) that work across a wide variety of terminals. It is written in a way that attempts to optimize the …

ncurses supports the features of SVr4 curses including keyboard mapping, color, form drawing with ACS characters, and automatic recognition of keypad and function keys.

Jun 17, 2025 · Ncurses, short for “new curses “, is an evolution of the curses library by Ken Arnold as originally released in 1978 for BSD UNIX, where it saw use with a number of games like …

In short, ncurses is a library that supports the creation of user interfaces on text terminals. Note that this tutorial covers almost everything you would ever want to know (or need) about …

Using ncurses, we can place text anywhere in the terminal, clear the screen, switch colors, and more. This is not a graphical mode, since we’re still just drawing characters, but we can use …

DESCRIPTION top The ncurses library routines give the user a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. This implementation is “new curses” …

The curses package is a subroutine library for terminal-independent screen-painting and input-event handling which presents a high level screen model to the programmer, hiding …

ncurses extends the fixed set of function key capabilities specified by X/Open Curses by allowing the application programmer to define additional key events at runtime; see define_key (3X), …

Nov 14, 2025 · ncurses (new curses) is a programming library that provides an API allowing the programmer to write text-based user interfaces in a terminal-independent manner. It is widely …

Thomas Dickey is the maintainer/developer of ncurses. This page gives some background and pointers to ncurses resources.