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

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Post by colecut » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

dcreater wrote: post #17

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Looks like a nice way to run a gui app on a VM remotely over an ssh connection?

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

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Post by dodslaser » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 4:54 PM UTC

fzorb wrote: post #14

I remember seeing something similar named Carbonyl a while back. What a coincidence lol. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl P.S. This is very cool btw.

Awrit is also similar.

https://github.com/chase/awrit

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

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Post by tracker1 » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 4:55 PM UTC

This is pretty cool, I can see this being useful when I need to run a one-off remotely. Not sure about attaching a running program then detaching again, or mirroring... I wouldn't mind being able to SSH to my desktop and manipulate say the running Discord client, or similar.

Another similar thing that I'd been meaning to look into is the RDP remote apps stuff.

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

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Post by lxe » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 4:56 PM UTC

This is absolutely unhinged and I love everything about it

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

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Post by lazyfanatic42 » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 4:59 PM UTC

It is funny but this is what I wished things did when I first started using Linux back in the day. '98-'99 timeframe, then I "learned" better that there was Xorg/X11,etc.

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

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Post by quotemstr » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:04 PM UTC

Great job! If you tug on this thread long and hard enough, you develop this enough and you get RDP (which you can try via xrdp, GNOME's remoting thing, etc.).

The reason the terminal ecosystem doesn't get much more sophisticated over time isn't just the herd-of-cats fragmentation, but also evaporative cooling: people who do really cool things with terminal come to realize that what they really want is remote desktop (perhaps rootless) and leave terminal stuff as-is while they invest in more sophisticated systems instead.

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

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Post by christophilus » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:05 PM UTC

Wow. This is amazing. I have started running a lot of stuff in containers by default for a whole host of reasons, and this may make my workflow even better on the occasions when I want to run a graphical app.

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

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Post by dartharva » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:08 PM UTC

Love it!

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

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Post by 20after4 » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:09 PM UTC

You could use a terminal graphics protocol to render real graphics. But there is already waypipe¹ to do that kind of remoting. Without using an actual terminal.

1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mstoeckl/waypipe

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

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Post by patcon » Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 5:12 PM UTC

fzorb wrote: post #14

I remember seeing something similar named Carbonyl a while back. What a coincidence lol. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl P.S. This is very cool btw.

I truly appreciate the relational thinking and pointing out other projects that might interest ppl who are excited about this :) Having said that, term.everything seems to be much larger in scope than a browser, unless I'm mistaken