diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8cfcc97f1f..127a0a5a6e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1061,6 +1061,31 @@ dependencies = [
  "cfg-if",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crossterm"
+version = "0.25.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e64e6c0fbe2c17357405f7c758c1ef960fce08bdfb2c03d88d2a18d7e09c4b67"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "crossterm_winapi",
+ "libc",
+ "mio",
+ "parking_lot 0.12.1",
+ "signal-hook",
+ "signal-hook-mio",
+ "winapi",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crossterm_winapi"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "2ae1b35a484aa10e07fe0638d02301c5ad24de82d310ccbd2f3693da5f09bf1c"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crypto-common"
 version = "0.1.6"
@@ -1080,14 +1105,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "ahash 0.8.3",
  "cfg-if",
  "crossbeam-channel",
+ "crossterm",
  "cursive_core",
  "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "log",
- "maplit",
- "ncurses",
  "signal-hook",
- "term_size",
  "unicode-segmentation",
  "unicode-width",
 ]
@@ -2327,12 +2350,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "maplit"
-version = "1.0.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3e2e65a1a2e43cfcb47a895c4c8b10d1f4a61097f9f254f183aee60cad9c651d"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "match_cfg"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2433,6 +2450,7 @@ source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "927a765cd3fc26206e66b296465fa9d3e5ab003e651c1b3c060e7956d96b19d2"
 dependencies = [
  "libc",
+ "log",
  "wasi 0.11.0+wasi-snapshot-preview1",
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
@@ -2467,17 +2485,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "ncurses"
-version = "5.101.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "5e2c5d34d72657dc4b638a1c25d40aae81e4f1c699062f72f467237920752032"
-dependencies = [
- "cc",
- "libc",
- "pkg-config",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "nextest-workspace-hack"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -4041,6 +4048,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "signal-hook-registry",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "signal-hook-mio"
+version = "0.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "29ad2e15f37ec9a6cc544097b78a1ec90001e9f71b81338ca39f430adaca99af"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "mio",
+ "signal-hook",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "signal-hook-registry"
 version = "1.4.1"
@@ -4793,16 +4811,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys 0.48.0",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "term_size"
-version = "0.3.2"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "1e4129646ca0ed8f45d09b929036bafad5377103edd06e50bf574b353d2b08d9"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "winapi",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "termcolor"
 version = "1.2.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0ccdc6b8f2..bdeea7e7ff 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ criterion = { version = "0.4.0", features = [
   "html_reports",
 ] }
 crossbeam-channel = "0.5"
-cursive = "0.20"
+cursive = { version = "0.20", default-features = false, features = ["crossterm-backend"] }
 decorum = { version = "0.3.1", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 derive_more = "0.99.17"
 dirs = "5.0.1"