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Terminals can display images? Wow. I'd consider that pretty amazing and useful for displaying visual information like charts, flame graphs, latency plots etc.
by vardump 9y ago
Terminals can display images?
Wow.
I'd consider that pretty amazing and useful for displaying visual information like charts, flame graphs, latency plots etc.
Is this a (de-facto) standard? If not, it should be!
- ReverseCold 9y agoNope, just an iTerm2 feature. Surprisingly there's nothing similar for Linux distributions - iTerm is for Mac only.
- afdsadf 9y agonotty [1], although I believe it's dead currently. [1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty https://github.com/withoutboats/notty
- vbernat 9y agoxterm supports some graphics through Sixel rendering. Never saw a real use of this. On X11, some text browsers, like w3m render images on xterm by painting directly in the xterm window.
- lmz 9y agoxterm has a Tek 4014 mode. Here's an older comment with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904
- bringtheaction 9y agoWell there is HTerm which is available for Linux. http://41j.com/hterm/ http://41j.com/hterm/
- ReverseCold 9y agoNot just graphics, iTerm2 has a whole bunch of other features that you can't find in one terminal on Linux.
- bringtheaction 9y agoSure but I was responding specifically in the context of GP. >> Terminals can display images?
- hota_mazi 9y agoYou know we live in strange times when Linux falls behind Mac OS on terminal support.
- kqr 9y agoThis is a major annoyance for me, a former OS X user (stopped using it turned to shit in all other regards). I have had to work really hard to get text to render well in Linux terminal emulators -- iTerm2 had good typography out or the box, modulo the default typeface.
- geraldcombs 9y agoDEC Sixel has been around since the '80s, although I'm not sure how many modern terminal applications support it.