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I'm a long time tmux user (and screen before that), but I don't understand why sixel makes a difference. Is this as big as bring a stacking window manager to t
by freedomben 2y ago
I'm a long time tmux user (and screen before that), but I don't understand why sixel makes a difference.
Is this as big as bring a stacking window manager to tmux (compared to the current which is tiling)? Or is just better graphics in the terminal? or am I way off here?
If it's just the better graphics, then I'm not sure I understand why tmux needs to support it. I would think the terminal emulator (such as Gnome terminal) is what would matter. I suppose maybe both but I would think tmux would just pass through.
- aidenn0 2y agoYou can't just pass through things; what happens when you resize, (re)attach, switch tabs &c. Tmux needs to know that there are graphics on the screen and redraw in any of those situations.
- rkangel 2y agoTerminals and shells aren't like window managers where you can just subdivide your drawing space and pass a block pixels to something else to draw on. What the terminal processes processing is a stream of bytes from the shell and needs to be able to interpret them in order to lay things out correctly.