Remote Terminal

Terminal shell/desktop access for GitHub Actions for debugging purposes

Live site https://xunhuang.github.io/remote_terminal/

Status

• functional: Linux Terminal in a web browser
• functional: MacOS Terminal in a web browser
• functional: Linux in a X enviroment in a web browser
• work in progress: Mac in a X enviroment in a web browser. Mouse clicks and keyboard input somehow not working. Displays and mouse movements work.

Behind the scenes

Lots of the legacy technologies are used in this project.

• Github Actions
• tmate (deprecated, potential replacement is xterm.js, tunnel mole etc.)
• X server/Xvfb/x11vnc
• ngrok (not free, try tunnel mole, local tunnel)
• noVNC (not the best)

This project took inspiration from fastmac