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It is useful for people who don't realize xterm(1) supports Sixel graphics. :-) It still blows people away when I set my GNUTERM var to 'sixelgd font "Arial,8"
by ChuckMcM 4y ago
It is useful for people who don't realize xterm(1) supports Sixel graphics. :-)
It still blows people away when I set my GNUTERM var to 'sixelgd font "Arial,8" size 800, 600'
In xterm, you can use bash to type these two lines:
$ export GNUTERM='sixelgd font "Arial, 8" size 800, 600'
$ gnuplot -e 'plot sin(x)'
And poof! a plot will appear.
- dunefox 4y agoIt's useful for people who work with data, like in ml, data science, etc.
- csdvrx 4y agoOr for sysadmin or anything where a quick plot at the data gives you hints at what's happening. In the example screenshot I put on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/master/example.jpg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot/maste..., I was investigating time sync issues. A plot immediately told me my first fix had corrected the issue on 2 servers, but I had mistakenly applied the same change to a 3rd one.