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term.everything

Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
8.1KGitHub stars
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Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-09-09 13:16:30 UTC to 2025-12-16 01:03:18 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0123452025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 commentsSep 82025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsOct 272025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 15

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Sep 82025-09-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC523
Sep 152025-09-15 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 222025-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-29 00:00:00 UTC000
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Oct 202025-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 272025-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32025-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 102025-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
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Nov 242025-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Dec 82025-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-15 00:00:00 UTC404
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A few years back, I was deploying, operating and debugging a Hadoop cluster with Kerberos enabled behind a firewall with only the SSH port being opened. Without a web browser would have been a much more complicated task. I ended up installing the X11 client on my local macOS and the all Gnome + Firefox on one of the cluster's node. Something that is not doable with Wayland. This project work like a charm, here is a quick example on how to test it inside an Incus container (I had to install 2 additional dependencies). # Work with Gnome terminal but resolution is much better in something supporting images apt install -y kitty kitty # Create an incus container incus --project default launch images:ubuntu/24.04 term incus --project default shell term # Install dependencies apt install -y curl firefox libharfbuzz0b libfontconfi
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g1 curl -L -o term https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/releases/download/0.5.1/term.everything.… mv term.everything.mmulet.com-dont_forget_to_chmod_+x_this_file term chmod u+x term echo '<h1>Hello</h1>' > test.html # Start firefox, wait for a few seconds ./term firefox test.html
In Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
Ask and ye shall receive: Running doom: https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource... I had the change a couple of line to make it work because term.everything takes input only from stdin (this way it works of ssh and is pretty broadly compatible across terminals). 1. I had to remap another key to the control key (which is usually used to send signals like sigterm) 2. Then I had to change the timeout in which keys are pressed. When using stdin, you get a keydown event, but you don't get a key up event (ever). So I have to guess when you want to key up. Most of the time, I can send key up right away. But, it looks like doom has some sort of key debounce, so I had to wait 50-100 ms for keyup. Then there is the problem of if you want to walk forward in games you usually hold down up arrow, but now you have to rapidly press
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it! Not ideal, but it does work, and it it playable.
In Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal
mmulet·Sep 9, 2025Submission

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

I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and attract cool contributions (I do all drawing with the familiar Canvas2D api, so if there is interest, I can also fork this out into a cool Terminal canvas, let me know!) I have a blog post here about how I did it, but it’s pretty high level and non technica
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l, so please ask if you have any questions. [How I Did It](<https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/blob/main/resource...>) *technically only Wayland apps and x11 apps with Xwayland. But on Linux that’s mostly everything.
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