I don’t know what headless means but that might just be a me problem.

So your server now has a monitor and you don’t always want to connect to it? It seems like a big waste of power.

Anyway, you could probably start an xserver in the background and output to the xserver outputting to the CRT. Then instruct your terminal to launch on that display. Just make sure you right an xorg.conf file configured to the right display.

There’s probably a more modern way to do this in Wayland but I’m not familiar.

What OS?

I tried to set it up, and installed dolphin as well but I could never get it to work. Must have something configured wrong in my end but could never figure out what

I’m confused. I looked at zed and it’s Apache 2.0. Isn’t that open source? I do specifically want FOSS

I can’t use codium because on sway the file open dialog doesn’t work and I haven’t figured out why

Dunno, I picked python as my language for personal projects because it has type hinting now and jobs I was looking at wanted it. I’d like to use C# but I need to find a good IDE on Linux.

I’ve gotten pretty good at C because it’s what my company uses but god damn I am tired of fixing memory errors from bad programming. Nobody uses best practices and it’s horrid. Best practices came about to avoid issues. Use them. Please. I don’t want to be the guy to answer “please fix my memory issues” tasks. If you don’t know what you’re doing, please choose a different god damn language.

I’ve only gotten this way because I’ve tried to read the fucking manual. Stop telling me I’m wrong when you don’t know how it works. Stop telling me I’m wrong when you don’t check for errors. I’m telling you this not because I want to talk. I’m telling you because I learned the hard way fixing your code and I don’t want to do it anymore.