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

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Post by krmbzds » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:57 AM UTC

That's fucking nuts!

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

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Post by candyman2018 » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:59 AM UTC

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

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Post by candyman2018 » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 6:59 AM UTC

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

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Post by anigbrowl » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:08 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #15

cryptonector wrote: post #4

Finally, high-performance remote display!

No sound though :)

Sounds like a challenge

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

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Post by jhoechtl » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:11 AM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #18

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

With wayland this would be a dead end

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

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Post by Davidbrcz » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:27 AM UTC

jhoechtl wrote: post #25

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #18

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

With wayland this would be a dead end

Why ?

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

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Post by nerflad » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:36 AM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #14

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…

HN Tabs are like an unstoppable cancer. I'm on XFCE and I have a whole workspace dedicated to over a year's worth of articles, books, discussions, etc from HN that "I'll eventually get around to reading".

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

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Post by eric-hu » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:39 AM UTC

mdaniel wrote: post #14

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…

I block HN on my computer etc hosts file. If I want something to stick, I have to discover it on mobile or my iPad and jump through an extra hoop to get new links on my desktop. I find the added friction is nice for reducing "empty calorie" links.

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

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Post by paule89 » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:44 AM UTC

Wow. I definitely like the Idea.

After reading the first few paragraphs i also finally understand why it would be such a great idea to have a blocky firefox.

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

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Post by namanyayg » Fri, Jan 05, 2018, 7:59 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?

This was posted on a lot of places are year or so ago (probably around the time it was released). I remember checking it out earlier for sure. Do you think you might've stumbled upon it from HN/Reddit and starred to show support etc?