https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

Run any GUI app in the terminal❗
https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

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Run any GUI app in the terminal❗

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything
• Owner: mmulet
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2025-09-07T02:52:48.000Z (3 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-09-21T16:47:09.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-25T02:58:01.505Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: alacritty, cli, foss, iterm2, kitty, linux, ssh, terminal, wayland, wayland-compositor
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 51.1 MB
• Stars: 5,979
• Watchers: 21
• Forks: 129
• Open Issues: 17
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: Readme.md
  • Contributing: Contributing.md
  • Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

          


  

    

      

    

    
Term.Everything❗

    Download the beta test now!

    HowIDidIt.md

  

  

    

    Works on both x11 and Wayland host systems.

    

    

  


## Run every GUI app in the terminal!

![warp_into_terminal0001-0195](./resources/graphics/warp_in_2.gif)

## Even over ssh!

Behold as I play a [video game in a font](https://github.com/mmulet/font-game-engine) in a web browser in a terminal transmitted over ssh (with one hand tied behind my back)!

![ssh_example](./resources/graphics/ssh_example.gif)

### Read about how it works!

Check out [HowIDidIt.md](./resources/HowIDidIt.md)

## More Examples

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:

![increase resolution](./resources/graphics/show_increase_res.gif)

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If your terminal supports images (like [kitty](https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/)

or [iterm2](https://iterm2.com/)) 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:

![full_resultion](resources/graphics/full_resultion.gif)

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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!

![file_manager](./resources/graphics/file_manager.gif)

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Terminal in a terminal in a terminal in a terminal in a terminal.... it's terminals all the way down.

![terminal_in_terminal](./resources/graphics/terminal_in_terminal.gif)

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With only a small amount hacking, it can run Doom (shareware episode)!

![Doom](./resources/graphics/doom.gif)

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Run an entire Desktop in your terminal!

[@ismail-yilmaz](https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz) is running Firefox, on [KDE Neon](https://neon.kde.org) in a [VM](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-boxes) on [Bobcat](https://github.com/ismail-yilmaz/Bobcat)

![Desktop in VM](./resources/graphics/desktop_in_vm.gif)

And this isn't even full resolution! Checkout the [full vid in in the discussions](https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/discussions/16#discussioncomment-14390137)

## About

`term.everything❗` is a Linux CLI program to run GUI windows in your terminal. Specifically, `term.everything❗` is a built-from-scratch [Wayland](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/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](./resources/HowIDidIt.md) where I will explain how everything works in detail.

## Try it out!

[Download the beta test now!](https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/releases)

## Roadmap

1. [x] 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]( https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/issues) if you have problems.

2. [ ] Term most things

3. [ ] Term everything❗

## Help and Usage

Check out the [help file here](./resources/help.md) for a usage guide on how to use `term.everything❗`

## Contributing

term.everything❗ is written in developer friendly [Typescript](https://www.typescriptlang.org/) using the [bun](https://bun.com/) engine, with a just a smidge of C++.

See [./Contributing.md](./Contributing.md).

## Legal:

term.everything❗ copyright 2025 Late for Dinner Studios, LLC

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Fontemon copyright 2021 Late for Dinner Studios, LLC

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Wing It! movie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license

[Wing it licensing page](https://studio.blender.org/projects/wing-it/pages/licensing/)

Attribution:

(CC) Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org

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Doom shareware episode is copyright 1993 id Software

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## Bonus:

This is Gwerm the Term Worm.

![this is gwern](./resources/graphics/this_is_gwern.gif)

He is doing okay. Thanks for asking.