IOTA

A lightweight, Rust-based TUI and service orchestrator for Tensamin IOTA. Iota manages users and stores their messages and communities. It can be run in a centralised, decentralised or hybrid mode.

The Iota is a work in progress.

Terminal themes

The TUI defaults to the ANSI theme. Select a theme for one invocation with --theme:

iota --theme monospace
iota --theme binary status

The available names are monospace, binary, ansi, and surface. Theme selection uses this precedence: --theme, IOTA_THEME, then ui.yaml in Iota's configuration directory. For example:

IOTA_THEME=surface iota

On Linux, the configuration file defaults to ~/.config/iota/ui.yaml (or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/iota/ui.yaml when set):

theme: surface

An invalid ui.yaml value is reported and Iota falls back to ANSI so the TUI can still start.

Linux daemon installation

The system-managed daemon runs as the dedicated iota account and listens on /run/iota/iota.sock through socket activation. Operator access is granted through the iota-operators group. After installing, add an account with:

usermod -aG iota-operators USER

The user must start a new login session before supplementary group membership is visible. IOTA_SOCKET remains authoritative for custom deployments.