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Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by tclover »

I tried recently once again to ditch Windows for Linux. Everything kinda worked, but the MediaTek Wi-Fi drivers were janky and my speed was like 10x slower than it should’ve been. After spending about 10 hours messing around with configs, I realized I was doing literally everything except what I actually wanted to do when I turned on the PC… so I just went back and installed LTSC Windows again.

Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by jamiek88 »

mmulet wrote: post #64
mmulet wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know there are ssh clients for iPad. So it should work. I’m going to try it right now!

Behold! running on the iPad! Screen Recording - https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource... A video of it on the iPad - https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource... Absolutely no mouse support though, anyone know of an iPad ssh client with mouse support? (still working on getting vscode to run smoothly)

I literally laughed in delight at this.

Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by 0points »

nicce wrote: post #117
GTP wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, not 100% useless: I can see its use for applications running inside Docker containers. Yes, there are ways to have GUI applications rendered from the inside of a container, but maybe this is easier than getting the Dockerfile right. EDIT: nevermind, doing this with Docker seems much easier than I expected [0]. I'll try it tomorrow, I'm curious to see if the proposed solution works on Windows as well. [0] https:…

Windows had Wayland support before most distros! Rather surprising.

> Windows had Wayland support before most distros! Rather surprising.

WSL had non-accelerated wayland support at one point in time.

Was it before "most distros"?

I don't understand what you think that amounts to.

Wayland support in Linux-land typically means that the software supports running in your wayland compositor.

Windows famously is not a wayland compositor, no matter how much you try to bend reality.

Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by xarope »

mmulet wrote: post #103
xarope wrote: post #99

one is required to ask about Gwerm, and why he is not moving... :-P

But really, in the last 24 hours term.everything has accumulated 1500 stars, 600 upvotes on HN, 185 upvotes on lobsters (the highest upvoted `show` tag of all time), but despite all of that, you, my friend, are the first to ask about Gwerm. That means you win the secret prize! A custom Gwerm T-shirt! I’ll send the details to the Gmail you have linked to your account.

saw your email, thanks! As much as I would want a customized Gwerm-Jörmungandr-ouroboros t-shirt (just a random though!), I think you have already more than earned the kudos with your work, so let me just give my thanks to you for something that brightened my day today.

Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by pndy »

marcodiego wrote: post #87

This is interesting, but there was something that was even more impressive many years ago: a GTK theme that rendered all decoration and widgets using text chars and a GDK backend that rendered to text. Combine both and you could run any GTK app on a terminal with legible text and a beautiful TUI. http://zemljanka.sourceforge.net/cursed/screenshots/

Damn I have a vague memories of seeing this thing in Fedora Core

Re: Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

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Post by camdroidw »

teknopaul wrote: post #68

Someone needs to make bash_completion really trivial to write. It isn't: and even copy paste is hard. Clever people write apps that are bash_completion friendly. If first main arg is bash friendly mycli myfunc ... Myour whole cliapp becomes "discoverable" with one tab keystroke that you probably already typed hopefully anyway. Never need to advertise a new feature. Deprecate by removing from completion without breaki…

Read the replies to his comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44854035#44854278
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