sent
The facts below are what the maker publishes about sent, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From sent's own pricing page, checked 10 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Simple plaintext slides · build from source |
The facts
Each one read from sent's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI assistance
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Automatic scaling
- Slide content is automatically scaled to fit the presentation window.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Build dependencies
- Building requires Xlib and Xft; image presentations use farbfeld tools.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Configuration
- Users can edit config.h and rebuild to customize the configuration.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Display
- Presentations appear in an X11 window with black text on a white background.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Download
- The official download page lists sent-1 dated 20170904.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Images
- It can display image slides, but images cannot share a slide with text.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Input
- Sent reads a named file, or reads from standard input when the file is omitted or specified as a hyphen.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Intended use
- The maker describes it as especially useful for Takahashi method presentations and quick lightning talks.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Limitations
- Sent has no animations, export function, font styles, fancy layout options, or automatic paragraph layout.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Navigation
- Slides can be navigated with the arrow keys, and q quits the presentation.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- PowerPoint export
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- PowerPoint import
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Presenter mode
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Sent is a simple plaintext presentation tool.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Real-time collaboration
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Slide format
- It uses plaintext files to describe slides, with each paragraph representing one slide.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Source code
- The maker provides a Git repository that can be cloned from git.suckless.org/sent.checked 10 Oct 2026
- UTF-8
- Sent supports UTF-8.checked 10 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Supported platforms
- Linux (X11)checked 24 Sep 2026
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