Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH • Hacker News Board

Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

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Post by sandebert » Thu, Jan 04, 2018, 9:08 PM UTC

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Post by krylon » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:19 AM UTC

I expected this to be an elaborate joke, but the author obviously has a good use case for it. That is quite ingenious!

#3

Post by nmg » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:25 AM UTC

Finally, good news in the world of computing. The zoom function is a nice touch...

#4

Post by cryptonector » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 3:39 AM UTC

Finally, high-performance remote display!

#5

Post by jaytaylor » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 4:26 AM UTC

This looks amazingly cool!

And I apparently starred the repo previously, but don't remember ever having seen this particular badass shit before.

Am I losing it?

#6

Post by davidcamel » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 4:47 AM UTC

This is awesome, I've always wanted something like this. Zoom is the killer feature.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 4:53 AM UTC

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Post by newman8r » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:05 AM UTC

very creative, looking forward to giving it a try.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:10 AM UTC

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#10

Post by moondev » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:13 AM UTC

Wow! Can't wait to try this! Coolest thing I have seen in a minute!