html-terminal

Terminal emulator based on web technologies.

TL;DR

I heard you like the terminal and the web, so I put a terminal in your browser and an HTML renderer in your terminal, so you can hack while you browse and browse while you hack!

html-terminal is a terminal emulator based on hterm that runs in a minimal, clutter-free webkitg2gtk webView that covers the entire screen. It is designed to be run on top of weston compositor.

The back-end (terminal-server) runs on nodejs and communicates with hterm via websockets using substack's shoe. It is desinged to be started via systemd.

This is part of htmshell.

Installation

Arch Linux

Dependencies

pacman -S nodejs weston 

and from AUR: webkit2gtk-unstable

npm i
cp build/node-terminal-server.service /etc/systemd/system/
cp build/html-terminal.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start node-terminal-server

Make sure your /etc/systemd/system/weston.service looks somewhat like mine:

[Unit]
Description=weston
RequiresMountsFor=/run
Requires=dbus.service systemd-udevd.service
After=dbus.service systemd-udevd.service

[Service]
Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all
WatchdogSec=20s
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/root/1000
ExecStartPre=/bin/chmod 0700 /var/run/root/1000
ExecStart=/usr/bin/openvt -v -e /usr/bin/weston -- --modules=systemd-notify.so  --backend=drm-backend.so --log=/var/log/weston.log
ExecStartPost=/usr/bin/bash -c "env > /var/run/root/1000/environment"
Nice=-20
Environment=XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/run/root/1000

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Future Plans

Invent custom ANSI Escape Sequence to support rendering of HTML snippets inside the terminal window.