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

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

#11

Post by betolink » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:17 AM UTC

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744221

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

#12

Post by jxy » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:29 AM UTC

It uses Xvfb, ffmpeg, hiptext (with fixes from the author), and a custom interfacer written in go, which employs xzoom in C and termbox-go (with fixes from the author).

The interfacer alone looks fun, seems like I can control a remote X session via ssh.

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

#13

Post by shironineja » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:31 AM UTC

Hmm I wonder how many of these I can run at the same ti

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

#14

Post by mdaniel » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:48 AM UTC

jaytaylor wrote: post #5

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?

If your situation is anything like mine, it goes much more like: "oh, neat; I'll look at that tonight" followed by a browser bounce, or something else becoming a bigger priority, lather, rinse, repeat.

There is so much great content -- both "empty calories" and otherwise -- that it is so easy to get buried under it. I came to HN to retrieve _one specific link_ and ended up with 7 new browser tabs open, counting this one.

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

#15

Post by cryptonector » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 5:56 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #4

Finally, high-performance remote display!

No sound though :)

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

#16

Post by sgc » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:09 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #15

cryptonector wrote: post #4

Finally, high-performance remote display!

No sound though :)

It's a feature not a bug ;)

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

#17

Post by chrisper » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:29 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #15

cryptonector wrote: post #4

Finally, high-performance remote display!

No sound though :)

Could it not play (monotone) sound through the terminal bell?

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

#18

Post by kevin_thibedeau » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:32 AM UTC

> Why not VNC?

Why not ssh -Y and use X protocol as intended?

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

#19

Post by shakna » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:41 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #18

> Why not VNC? Why not ssh -Y and use X protocol as intended?

> sometimes I don't have very good Internet. If all I have is a 3kbps connection

I don't think X would handle that very well, and you may not have an X server at the other side.

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

#20

Post by paulfurtado » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:45 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #18

> Why not VNC? Why not ssh -Y and use X protocol as intended?

He describes the motivation in the README here: https://github.com/tombh/texttop#why

Looks like the goal is to be able to view modern websites over poor internet connections using mosh. (And also probably a lot of fun to implement/see working)