Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal • Hacker News Board

20after4 wrote: post #29

You could use a terminal graphics protocol to render real graphics. But there is already waypipe¹ to do that kind of remoting. Without using an actual terminal. 1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

> You could use a terminal graphics protocol to render real graphics.

It already does that[1].

> But there is already waypipe¹ to do that kind of remoting.

That requires Wayland on the client side, doesn't it? I don't expect this to be super-practical anyway, but it's fun to see how far you can push a terminal.

[1] "If your terminal supports images (like kitty or iterm2) you can render windows at full resolution (performance may degrade)."

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

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Post by sreenathmenon » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:30 PM UTC

Love it :)

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

#37

Post by actsasbuffoon » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

nick__m wrote: post #34

That's awesomely useless, it straddles the line between programming and art. I am sure it was a great and fun learning experience. Well done !

Yeah, I can’t explain why this project makes me so happy because I struggle to think of any time where I’d need this, but it puts a big, dumb grin on my face.

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

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Post by nixpulvis » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

This is one of those things I'm going to keep in my back pocket for a very specific time I need it for a weird reason.

I love it.

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

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Post by mmulet » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:47 PM UTC

actsasbuffoon wrote: post #37

nick__m wrote: post #34

That's awesomely useless, it straddles the line between programming and art. I am sure it was a great and fun learning experience. Well done !

Yeah, I can’t explain why this project makes me so happy because I struggle to think of any time where I’d need this, but it puts a big, dumb grin on my face.

<3

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

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Post by mmulet » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:50 PM UTC

patcon wrote: post #30

fzorb wrote: post #14

I remember seeing something similar named Carbonyl a while back. What a coincidence lol. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl P.S. This is very cool btw.

I truly appreciate the relational thinking and pointing out other projects that might interest ppl who are excited about this :) Having said that, term.everything seems to be much larger in scope than a browser, unless I'm mistaken

That’s right. These other projects are awesome, but they’re attempting something different. It’s apples to oranges.