Waytermirror – real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal

Waytermirror offers real-time Wayland screen mirroring to a terminal using Unicode braille characters, half‑blocks, ASCII, sixels, kitty graphics, framebuffer, or hybrid rendering. Includes bidirectional input forwarding, audio streaming (PipeWire), zooming, focus-follow, and optional NVIDIA CUDA acceleration (server-side).

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• A client/server application:
• Server runs on the Wayland host (captures screen & audio, performs rendering, injects input).
  Client runs in a terminal (receives ANSI/Sixel frames, displays them, captures local input, sends it to server).
• Rendering modes: braille, half-blocks, ASCII, sixels, kitty graphics, framebuffer (/dev/fb0), and hybrid (auto-select per cell). Framebuffer mode allows direct writing to the Linux framebuffer device, enabling output to physical TTYs or virtual consoles without a terminal emulator.
• Color modes: 16, 256, truecolor (24‑bit).
• Optional CUDA acceleration for server-side rendering (NVIDIA only).
• Sixel graphics support for direct pixel rendering on compatible terminals.

Website: github.com/cyber-wojtek/waytermirror
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Developer: Wojciech Dudek
License: MIT License

Waytermirror is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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