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

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Post by ranger_danger »

IshKebab wrote: post #89

I started working on this with the Kitty image protocol, but unfortunately that protocol is really unsuited to this sort of thing. Performance will be awful. The protocol is sort of: 1. I'd like you to display this PNG. Here's the data: ... 2. Ok I've got the data. 3. Ok now display it at this position. 4. Ok now remove it from the screen. We're talking motion-PNG here. Just think about how awful that is. I wish some…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY

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

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Post by GranPC »

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/

Link is dead. Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20080924152845/http://zemljanka....

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

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Post by dmayle »

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 !

Definitely not useless!

I run a ttyd server to get terminal over https, and I have used carbonyl over that to get work done. That's limited to a web browser (to get access to resources not exposed via the public internet), so having full GUI support is very useful

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

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Post by msdz »

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.

It's like a more generalized browsh[1].

[1] https://www.brow.sh/

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

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Post by anthk »

hiccuphippo wrote: post #81
anthk wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Emacs it's full of chindogus. Also, there's geekcode, xroach, megahal/hailo, xneko, aatv and mplayer rendering videos over aalib, aaquake, eforth running in the subleq virtual machine...

I remember watching the World Cup over telnet with one of those aalib libraries years ago. The signal arrived 5 seconds earlier than the TV :)

With a small framebuffer font aatv was almost watchable over a distance, but OFC fbtv made it obsolete, and ditto with mplayer -vo aalib as movies worked in the framebuffer just as fine as X.

But I remember the BB demo and I still remember these catchy s3m modules...

https://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/

And, well, not AA, but I still play today tons of text adventures and roguelikes (and BSDgames and such), and my main X environment it's CLI/TUI based except for CWM (Window manager), MPV/MuPDF/NSxiv (images) and djview4 for DJVU files..

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

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Post by blooalien »

pawelduda wrote: post #66
actsasbuffoon wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Well, you can run apps on any less capable device with ssh and proper terminal display. You can limit data usage by offloading video buffering to the host (however not sure if that's net positive saving). And put the host behind VPN to avoid getting region blocks.

I actually used to tunnel Netscape Navigator via SSH to my Commodore Amiga desktop via an Xorg server way back in the 56K phone modem Internet days from my ISP's SSH user account login, since Amiga didn't have Netscape (and even if it did, the Amiga likely would have choked on it, massive and bloated as Netscape was), and the browser AmigaOS did have just wasn't up to the task of normal day-to-day usage of the Web as it existed back then. Fun times.

Sure am glad of the broadband Internet and modern "powerhouse" PCs we have so readily available today. Hell, even the computer most everyone carries in their pocket these days is infinitely more powerful than the average desktop machines of my childhood. :)

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