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Behold as I play a video game in a font in a web browser in a terminal transmitted over ssh (with one hand tied behind my back)!
Check out HowIDidIt.md
The quality of the window is limited to the number of rows and columns in your terminal. If you increase the resolution (ctrl - in alacritty, check your terminal) the quality will go up, (but performance may go down).
Here I open up the Wing It! movie, and increase the quality until I get both a good frame rate and resolution:
If your terminal supports images (like kitty or iterm2) you can render windows at full resolution (performance may degrade).
In this example, on my mac, I open iTerm2 ssh into ubuntu and open firefox at full resolution:
I feel like every single day I hear about another terminal file viewer. I say, stop making terminal file viewers because you can just use the file viewer you already have! In your terminal!
Terminal in a terminal in a terminal in a terminal in a terminal.... it's terminals all the way down.
With only a small amount hacking, it can run Doom (shareware episode)!
term.everything❗
is a Linux CLI program to run GUI windows in your terminal. Specifically, term.everything❗
is a built-from-scratch Wayland compositor that outputs to a terminal rather than your monitor.
Don't know what Wayland is or just want to know more about how this works? Then, head over to HowIDidIt.md where I will explain how everything works in detail.
- Term some things <--- This is where we are at
- Some apps or (even most apps) may fail to launch or even crash! Please create an issue if you have problems.
- Term most things
- Term everything❗
Check out the help file here for a usage guide on how to use term.everything❗
term.everything❗ is written in developer friendly Typescript using the bun engine, with a just a smidge of C++. See ./Contributing.md.
Wing It! movie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Wing it licensing page Attribution: (CC) Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org
This is Gwerm the Term Worm.
He is doing okay. Thanks for asking.