urwid Open Source Projects | Good First Issue

set_alarm_in callbacks: a wrong signature kills the entire MainLoop with a misleading traceback Open

Event loop Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

urwid/urwid#1269 · Opened Sep 2, 2026

[Feature] [ Implementation Provided ] ANSI Box that supports curses Open

Feature proposal Waiting for response Widget

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

urwid/urwid#1120 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 7, 2026

[BUG] 3.0.4 breaks compatibility by changing signal arguments Open

bug

urwid/urwid#1086 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 5, 2025

[BUG] Edit content scrolls one column horizontally just before wrapping Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

urwid/urwid#1053 · Opened Sep 6, 2025

[Question] Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#1031 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 9, 2025

[BUG] urwid errors out on macOS with Python 3.13.3 - OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#1025 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 23, 2025

[Question] Status of Windows support Open

question

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#1007 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 18, 2025

[Question] Audio libraries that work with urwid? Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#992 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 18, 2025

[Question] Screen-reader Accessibility Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#986 · Opened Feb 5, 2025

[Feature] Add support for underline style and color Open

Display Feature proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#976 · Opened Jan 13, 2025

[Question] Mouse event inconsistent with key event Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#967 · Opened Dec 31, 2024

Looking for a starting point for a script runner Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#911 · Opened Jul 6, 2024

[ANNOUNCE] The `Urwid` currently packaged and available via `MSYS2` distro Open

question

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#775 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2024

patches from the Debian packaging Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#728 · 16 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 3, 2024

[Refactoring] Need to get rid of circular inheritance from Widget class in codebase Open

refactoring Widget

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

urwid/urwid#726 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2024

[Feature][API] get rid of `hasattr` checking for parent widget API calls Open

Feature Widget

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#703 · Opened Dec 11, 2023

[Feature] allow deque() usage in Pile, Columns Open

Feature proposal Waiting for response Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

urwid/urwid#672 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2023

Urwid deps in test.pypi.org are broken Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#600 · 8 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2023

Tests: investigate VTerm resize test creation Open

proposal Tests

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#590 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2023

need help: insert item into listbox in thread Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#587 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2023

vterm hangs when attempting to parse an OSC sequence without a terminator Open

question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#562 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2023

Question: containers dynamically add/remove child widgets Open

question Widget

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#518 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 25, 2023

Feature request: support for synchronized rendering output Open

Display Feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

urwid/urwid#515 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 6, 2023

Comparing str and bytes Open

in progress Unicode

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

urwid/urwid#512 · Opened Nov 10, 2022

Cannot get urwid to work over COM port Open

Display question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#506 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2022

FloatEdit doesn't handle floats and IntegerEdit returns Decimals Open

question Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

urwid/urwid#502 · Opened Mar 9, 2022

[Questions] Multi view App, Global variables and general best practices Open

question

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

urwid/urwid#497 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2022

Pile default focus not handled well when contents is modified Open

Feature Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

urwid/urwid#492 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 31, 2021

Crash urwid / alot on startup AssertionError: (0, 0, 1) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#478 · 2 comments · Opened May 16, 2021

Urwid Cascading menu Open

question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#472 · Opened Apr 7, 2021

Cannot change focus twice to a widget in another container Open

Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#466 · Opened Feb 16, 2021

wrap_around option causes contents to be repeated indefinitely Open

bug Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#464 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 15, 2021

sporadic test failures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#460 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2021

Urwid Website: Mailing list link does not work Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#456 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2021

Some keys don't work in st Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#450 · Opened Jan 12, 2021

[Question] Looking for a better approach for keypress customization Open

Feature Widget

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#440 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 11, 2020

Crashes GUI when piping in a file ("TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found" and "TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable") Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#423 · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 29, 2020

Status on pack method implementation for basic widget classes Open

question Widget

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#421 · Opened Jul 21, 2020

curses_display doesn't support alarm timeouts > 25.5s Open

Display Feature low hanging fruit

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

urwid/urwid#412 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2020

[Feature Suggestion] Decorator Keyboard Shortcuts and automatic command mapping Open

Feature proposal Widget

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#407 · 4 comments · Opened May 7, 2020

Add support for hyperlinks in text (OSC8) Open

Feature proposal

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#391 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 8, 2020

ListBoxError crash: calculated cursor coords None but rendered cursor coords (x, y) -- without the Terminal Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#386 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2019

TrioEventLoop doesn't use passed-in nursery argument Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#381 · 5 comments · Opened Dec 10, 2019

A pile of text does not behave like multi-line text Open

question Widget

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#363 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 25, 2019

'NoneType' object has no attribute 'scroll_buffer' Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#360 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 6, 2019

Multiple issues running terminal.py with Jexer demo Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#359 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 31, 2019

focus on listbox move jumps Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

urwid/urwid#357 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 15, 2019

Terminal widget demo (terminal.py): how to scroll using keyboard or mouse? Open

docs question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

urwid/urwid#345 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2019

AssertionError: (0, 0, 0) in text_layout.py Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

urwid/urwid#342 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2019

Error: cviews do not fill gaps in shard_tail! Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

urwid/urwid#340 · Opened Apr 5, 2019

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