SSH TUI server à la charmbracelet/wish

[lucasea777]

I am not sure if this proposal belongs here, but I think it could definitely promote textual adoption.

charmbracelet/bubbletea is like textual but for the go language.
They also implemented charmbracelet/wish which allows bubbletea applications to work as ssh public servers, this allows anyone to access the app simply by typing $ ssh ssh.chat (for example) on the terminal.

Having something similar would be really cool, of course it would have to be implemented on a different repo...

[jacopofar]

Sounds like the use case of containerSSH, it requires the app to be dockerized but not to use any specific language or library. I haven't tried it with Textual yet

[ricott1]

Urwid does something similar using Twisted: https://github.com/urwid/urwid/blob/master/examples/twisted_serve_ssh.py .

We could probably do something similar for textual.

[torshepherd]

Adding onto this, I was able to make a quick and dirty Textual ssh server using asyncssh by just copying https://asyncssh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#id15 and using a textual demo app as the script to run, but this is all sorts of funky on my pc:

Seems like it prints out my mouse movements?

Simply running ssh localhost and then running a textual app works everything except for styling, so there is hope!

Normally:

Over ssh:

Should also be noted that results were significantly worse on Alacritty than built-in Ubuntu terminal.

[torshepherd]

Alacritty same example:

[torshepherd]

Update: This completely goes away if I just set

export COLORTERM=truecolor

!! Now to make asyncssh do this for me

[lucasea777]

Update: This completely goes away if I just set

export COLORTERM=truecolor

!! Now to make asyncssh do this for me

Great! Do you know if you can run asyncssh with authentication disabled, i.e. so that anyone can access it without an key/certificate?

[torshepherd]

The simple server example is exactly that:

https://asyncssh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#simple-server

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