CUTECOM(1)

📦 version 0.60.0_rc1_git20251017, in alpine 3.24, debian bookworm, debian trixie, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, opensuse-leap 16.0, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 CUTECOM(1) — the cutest serial terminal in the whole group chat 💖

okay so bestie, we're reading the General Commands Manual page for cutecom and honestly? it's giving "I talk to hardware for a living and I look adorable doing it". sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, let's go.

✨ NAME ✨

cutecom — a graphical serial terminal. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

cutecom

literally just run it. no flags required, no drama, main character energy. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So. CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal, just like minicom — but with a window, and a face card that never declines. 💅

It's aimed mainly at hardware developers or literally anyone else who needs a terminal to talk to their devices. if that's you, hi, you're so valid, this is your moment.

Here's what makes it iconic:

  • it features a line-oriented interface instead of character-oriented (yes bestie, the whole line, not one sad little char at a time) ✨
  • xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support — but heads up, that requires the lrzsz package, no cap 🙈
  • hexadecimal input and output among other things 🌈

it's a whole package. it ate. 💜

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — prints a short help message. short and sweet, just like this option. 🫶
  • -s, --session <session_name> — opens a previously defined session. and here's the tea: a new Session with default connection parameters is created when a session with this name can not be found in the config file. so it never leaves you hanging. 😭💖

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • ~/.config/CuteCom/CuteCom5.conf — your personal CuteCom configuration file (with sessions stored there also). yes bestie, sessions live in there too, that's where they're kept, that's their home. 🏠✨

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

go read those too, iykyk. 👑

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

CuteCom was originally written by Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org> and is now maintained by Meinhard Ritscher <cyc1ingsir@gmail.com>. legends, honestly. 🫶

This manual page was written by Roman I Khimov <roman@khimov.ru>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). queen behaviour, sharing the knowledge with the group chat. 💜

okay so that's the whole page, and if you made it to the end you deserve a little treat 🍓 — this was the CUTECOM(1) page as of September 30, 2016 (yeah, it's a little vintage, still slays). now go talk to your devices, bestie, they've been waiting. 💖✨🎀

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