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Term.Everything❗

🚀 Native Setup 📖 Setup Guide HowIDidIt.md
Works on both x11 and Wayland host systems. No Docker Required!

Run every GUI app in the terminal!

warp_into_terminal0001-0195

Even over ssh!

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)!

ssh_example

Read about how it works!

Check out HowIDidIt.md

More Examples

The quality of the window is now much improved with the new high-quality rendering system. Default resolution has been increased to 1920x1080 with enhanced character sets and dithering for much better visual quality. You can further customize quality vs performance with:

# Maximum quality (slower but looks great)
./term.everything --quality ultra firefox

# Performance mode (faster for older systems)  
./term.everything --quality low firefox

# Custom resolution for your terminal
./term.everything --virtual-monitor-size 2560x1440 firefox

If you increase the terminal resolution (ctrl - in alacritty, check your terminal) the quality will go up even further, (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


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:

full_resultion


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


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


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

Doom

About

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.

Try it out!

🚀 Native Linux Setup (No Docker Required!)

NEW: Run natively on Linux, Debian, Kali and other distributions:

git clone https://github.com/deepsuthar496/term.everything.git
cd term.everything
./install.sh
./term.everything firefox

📖 Complete Setup Guide - Detailed instructions for native installation

💡 Having issues? Run ./troubleshoot.sh to diagnose problems quickly

📦 Pre-built Releases

Download the beta test now!

Roadmap

  1. 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.
  1. Term most things
  2. Term everything❗

Help and Usage

Check out the help file here for a usage guide on how to use term.everything❗

Contributing

term.everything❗ is written in developer friendly Typescript using the bun engine, with a just a smidge of C++.

🐳 Docker Development (Original Method)

See ./Contributing.md.

🖥️ Native Development (New Method)

For native development without Docker:

  1. Run ./install.sh to set up your development environment
  2. Use ./build-native.sh to build the project
  3. See SETUP.md for detailed development instructions

Legal:

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

Fontemon copyright 2021 Late for Dinner Studios, LLC

Wing It! movie is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license Wing it licensing page Attribution: (CC) Blender Foundation | studio.blender.org

Doom shareware episode is copyright 1993 id Software

Bonus:

This is Gwerm the Term Worm.

this is gwern

He is doing okay. Thanks for asking.

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