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"If a CLI interface can include a GUI, can you use it over in a SSH terminal?"

Yes, you can use every bit of functionality in all the software I cited over SSH, you just don't get the GUI. (Excepting anything purely GUI-specific, like opening a new window in emacs, but that's a small set of targeted commands.) That's why I cited those examples as CLI apps with GUI overlays. I could cite some others, too, like fetchmailconf, a GUI for fetchmail that is optionally used for configuration of an otherwise fundamentally CLI app. Unix is full of these things.



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