Framework System TUI

A snappy TUI dashboard for controlling and monitoring your Framework Laptop hardware — charging, privacy, lighting, USB PD ports, and more.

Features

Framework Laptop Hardware

• Live battery and charge status with limits and charging controls
• Privacy toggles for microphone & camera
• Input Deck Mode selector (Framework 16)
• Keyboard & Fingerprint brightness controls
• USB PD port monitoring
• Fan RPM
• Thermal info: CPU/GPU temperatures
• System info: BIOS details

Installation

📀 Binaries

The pre-compiled binaries for Linux are available for download on the Releases page

📝 From source

Requires Rust (Edition 2024) and a Framework laptop.

git clone https://github.com/grouzen/framework-tool-tui.git
cd framework-tool-tui
cargo build --release
# or via cargo install
cargo install --path .

🐧 Linux distros

Gentoo linux

It is available via lamdness overlay

sudo eselect repository enable lamdness
sudo emaint -r lamdness sync
sudo emerge -av app-laptop/framework-tool-tui

Arch linux

It is available via AUR or archlinuxcn

[yay/paru] -S framework-tool-tui # Install from AUR
sudo pacman -S framework-tool-tui # Install from archlinuxcn

👨 Run

It needs to be running with root privileges to access hardware controls.

sudo framework-tool-tui

📝 Architecture

See ARCHITECTURE.md for full technical breakdown.

• Hardware polling via framework_lib

🤝 Contributing

Pull requests welcome! For bug reports or feature requests, see Issues.

Technical stack

• ratatui
• tokio
• framework_lib

🧑‍⚖️ License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2025 Mykhailo Nedokushev

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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See LICENSE and Cargo.toml for license & dependencies.