[rbanffy]

I contribute to this project (they use my 3278 font) but I think the best way to do this would be to have shaders available to compositor windows. This way, any terminal app (or video player) could tap into a library of CRT shaders.

The only thing missing would be frame-to-frame data availability to make persistence possible - Windows Terminal has shaders, but they can’t access the previous frame.

[krautburglar]

I believe compositors like picom can already do this.

ctrl+f shader

https://man.archlinux.org/man/picom.1.en

[rbanffy]

Now all we need is to add that to Wayland.

[krautburglar]

Both X11 and Wayland need a coherent accessibility on-ramp first. I know AI can remedy many of the issues after-the-fact, but it is an embarrassment that we need to go that far when the text and the partitioning are already known at different layers of the stack.