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

Post by krackers » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 6:26 PM UTC

mmulet wrote: post #20

krackers wrote: post #15

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I think there is an API (that was added with sidecar) to create a virtual display. So at best you could retrieve the framebuffer and then display that. I don't think there is an easy exposed way to get per-window information, aside from doing a screencapture (which likely would not work if you also wanted to hide the window).

Interesting… do you have a link to the docs? The easiest thing prob would be to set the window to be fullscreen, but on that virtual display. That would accomplish per window screen capture.

Post by kposehn » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 6:45 PM UTC

Post by howyesno » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 6:58 PM UTC

Post by mmulet » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 7:02 PM UTC

kposehn wrote: post #53

Wow. I love this! I actually have a specific, esoteric use for this: VSCode on iPad Hopefully supports iPadOS one day.

Post by k-warburton » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 7:09 PM UTC

mmulet wrote: post #39

actsasbuffoon wrote: post #37

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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