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> as long you can display unicodes On Linux, virtual terminals are currently limited to 512 glyphs and 16 colors. You can't do much graphics with that, unless
by jwilk 4y ago
> as long you can display unicodes
On Linux, virtual terminals are currently limited to 512 glyphs and 16 colors. You can't do much graphics with that, unless you bypass the terminal layer and write directly to the framebuffer, like w3mimg does.
- csdvrx 4y agoI should have been clearer: as long as you have a font which has entries for the glyphs used by derasterize and sixel-tmux - check the source and you'll see you don't need a lot of them.
- anthk 4y agoVT's but not XTerms. Also, framebuffer based VT's allow 256 colors with ease. On the font issue, yes, sadly you are right. It's retarded to just have 512 glyphs on a framebuffer, not a true tty. The framebuffer or KMS should support TTF fonts by default. A Unifont TTF would be godsend here.
- jwilk 4y agoSince Linux v3.16, the vt driver recognizes 256-color and even 24-bit escape sequences, but it maps the colors to the 16-color palette: https://git.kernel.org/linus/cec5b2a97a11ade5 https://git.kernel.org/linus/cec5b2a97a11ade5