LobsterPyGUI 🦞🐍🖥️

A graphical user interface for LobsterPy

A GUI for an easy start with LobsterPy for the people that are not familiar with the Linux terminal (yet). Only suitable for Linux/GNU systems!

A GUI to handle LOBSTER input and output with LobsterPy. The purpose of this GUI is to help beginners getting familiar with Linux and the cli. That's why the functionalities are kept very simple on purpose and it's only supposed to be used on a Linux/GNU based machine.

How to use LobsterPyGUI?

Simply download the lobsterpygui binary and copy it (e.g. in the terminal) to your $HOME/bin folder 📂 (don't forget to add your bin folder to your $PATH environment variable).

cp $HOME/Downloads/lobsterpygui $HOME/bin

And then you can simply run it in the folder with your LOBSTER calculation where you want to use LobsterPy using a terminal.

cd /path/to/your/lobster/calc

lobsterpygui

Example

When you open lobsterpygui in the terminal and click on LobsterPy help it will execute the command lobsterpy --help in the background and print the standard output (std out) of that command in the GUI.