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awrit

A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support

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11Mentions
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1.4KGitHub stars
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A full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-05-15 00:50:30 UTC to 2026-02-18 11:42:18 UTC.

0123452023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Are we intentionally reusing project names now? Lynx [1] is a fairly popular tui browser. I guess it doesn’t support ssl or tls, so is now obsolete? W3M [2] is a decent tui alternative that does. Or if you use kitty, awrit [3] is nice, with images and mouse support (it renders chromium in a terminal window) [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) [2] https://w3m.sourceforge.net/ [3] https://github.com/chase/awrit
In Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok
Based on my (limited) understanding of Kitty's image protocol[0] (a.k.a the "Terminal graphics protocol") video support could be potentially implemented via multiple approaches, including at least: (1) Draw image repeatedly using the "don't move cursor" cursor movement policy[1a][1b]. (2) Draw image replacing an existing image with the same id. (3) Use animation configured to use "loading mode"[2] ("in this mode when reaching the last frame, instead of looping, the terminal will wait for the arrival of more frames"). An actual terminal graphics/image protocol enables some IMO[3] pretty cool possibilities: * A while back I implemented a proof-of-concept that displayed a simple interactive egui (a Rust immediate mode GUI project) GUI within WezTerm via the protocol. * Later I discovered someone had gone as far as making a port[5] of the Ope
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nGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol. * And there's even a "full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support"[6][7]. ---- footnotes ---- (Content advisory for links: Kitty terminal graphics protocol spec includes a sample image whose subject has requested that the image no longer be used for such purposes.) [0] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#terminal-... [1a] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#controlli... [1b] This approach appears to be the method used by the mpv implementation: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/874e28f4a41a916bb56... [2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#controlli... [3] I'm aware that not everyone will think static or dynamic image display is something a terminal "should do" but to me it seems better to have actual image support in terminals rather than use (already currently used) existing "hacks" that provide a poor facsimile of support[4]. [4] Then again, I'm also of the opinion[4a] that perhaps terminals should support actual graphical UIs rather than the poor facsimile of them delivered by TUIs. *cough* :D [4a] Motivated by the thought that at the current point in time perhaps the "essence" of a "terminal" is its linear "chronological" presentation of input/interaction/output history rather than its use of "text". (See also: "lab notebooks" & some tiling window manager features.) [5] https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty [6] https://github.com/chase/awrit [7] Which I imagine DEC is turning in its grave about. :)
In Safe Terminal Escape Codes
Textual is not 3d too, but is also great for TUIs. Textualize/Frogmouth has a TUI tree control: https://github.com/Textualize/frogmouth FWICS browsh supports WebGL over SSH/MoSH https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/ : > The terminal client updates and renders in realtime so that, for instance, you can watch videos. It uses the UTF-8 half-block trick () to get 2 colours from every character cell, thus simulating basic graphics. https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl : > Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it. Always wondered how brew.sh added the brew sprite there; that's real nice. TIL that e.g. Kitty term can basically framebuffer modified Chrome? https://github.com/chase/awrit : > Yep, actual Chromium being rendered in your favorite terminal that supports the Kitty terminal graphics protocol. FWIW Cloudf
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lare has clientless Remote Browser Isolation that also splits the browser at the rendering engine. A TUI Manim renderer would be neat. Re: Teaching math with Manim and interactive 3d: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery/issues/99 What would you add to make it easier to teach with this entirely CPU + software rendering codebase? What prompts for learning would you suggest? - Pixar in a Box, Wikipedia history of CG industry,: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-36265807 - "Rotate a wireframe cube or the camera perspective with just 2d pixels to paint to; And then rotate the cube about a point other than the origin, and then move the camera while the cube is rotating" - OTOH, ManimML, Yellowbrick, and the ThreeJS Wave/Particle simulator might be neat with a slow terminal framebuffer too
In Show HN: Consol3 – A 3D engine for the terminal that executes on the CPU

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