You could use a terminal graphics protocol to render real graphics. But there is already waypipe¹ to do that kind of remoting. Without using an actual terminal.
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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 technical, 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.
It already does that[1].
> But there is already waypipe¹ to do that kind of remoting.
That requires Wayland on the client side, doesn't it? I don't expect this to be super-practical anyway, but it's fun to see how far you can push a terminal.
[1] "If your terminal supports images (like kitty or iterm2) you can render windows at full resolution (performance may degrade)."