I've already asked the question, but is there a way to embed this in a regular a...

qbasic_forever · on March 19, 2022

IMHO I would pop a web view and load an HTML page with tui.css. It's seriously impressive looking and much easier to integrate in a modern gui system, electron app, etc.: https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss

kmstout · on March 19, 2022

Or you could make a launcher for your app that (attempts to) determine whether it needs to launch a terminal and does the right thing. Something like

  my-beautiful-console-app
  ========================
  #! /bin/bash

  if tty -s; then
    exec my-beautiful-console-app-for-realz "$@"
  else
    exec xterm -e my-beautiful-console-app-for-realz "$@"
  fi

might be a start.

bonzini · on March 19, 2022

You can use the vte library to embed a terminal in a GTK+ program. QEMU does it for example.