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This is a great idea. I always wanted KDE konsole to e. g. show images inlined as is. This is possible via magick six:-, but I wanted this to be natively. I wan

This is a great idea. I always wanted KDE konsole to e. g. show images inlined as is. This is possible via magick six:-, but I wanted this to be natively. I want the terminal to be able to work with any data and display it in any way. No need to simulate the 1980s era anymore (except for backwards/legacy support). So great idea here really.

berkes 5mo ago
Kitty and several other terminal emulators, have built in graphics display already. IIRC, this is called the kitty protocol, but I might be mistaken.
anthk 5mo ago
I did that with Sixels, no Rust needed, no 3D crap, no ad-hoc addons, just old vt340 support in XTerm. That's how I read images under a remote pubnix with tut using a Mastodon account over plain SSH. Chafa and XTerm. It works.
- kjs3 5mo ago
  I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
  - anthk 5mo ago
    I don't have any newsletter, but for Mastodon: - Compile tut, it just requires Go, it will run on any modern OS. - Login with tut - Set a 'tview' shell (sh) script as #/bin/sh chafa -f sixel --fit-width "$@" | less -r" reset - Configure tut, set program=tview in the [media.image] section. - Then launch XTerm as 'xterm -ti 340'. Edit ~/.Xresources so you have nice fonts: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*loginShell: true xterm*faceName: Monospace xterm*faceSize: 10 xterm*geometry: 100x32 xterm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*decTerminalID: vt340 xterm*numColorRegisters: 256 xterm*sixelScrolling: 1 xterm*sixelScrollsRight: 1 Done. Edit the facesize value to a bigger font if you have a big resolution. Run "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults" to get the changes. Also, you can run chafa locally with images such as "chafa -f sixel --fit-with foo.img', no need to login into a VPS, of course, it just was a proof of concept that you could see images over SSH. This can be really useful for instance to read graph/plots with Gnuplot or similar tools. If any, subscribe to T3X's news letter and get some books, as these small tools will pay a lot in near future. No AI crap, small enough to run on some sets, from Statistics to semi-advanced math (even Zenlisp being crap can do complex numbers, and you can adapt the code for instance for S9 so that interpreter Scheme understand complex numbers and a much faster speed). Yeah, Python+SAGEMATH, CUDA with number crunching and the like. How much are the GPU's, CPU's and SSD's going nowadays in dollars?
    - kjs3 5mo ago
      "I would like to subscribe to your newsletter" is an old neck-beard way of saying 'I really like what you're doing there' from the before time. The humor probably got lost over the years. But seriously, thanks for sketching that out. I will definitely give it a spin.

berkes 5mo ago

Kitty and several other terminal emulators, have built in graphics display already. IIRC, this is called the kitty protocol, but I might be mistaken.

anthk 5mo ago

I did that with Sixels, no Rust needed, no 3D crap, no ad-hoc addons, just old vt340 support in XTerm. That's how I read images under a remote pubnix with tut using a Mastodon account over plain SSH. Chafa and XTerm. It works.

kjs3 5mo ago
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
- anthk 5mo ago
  I don't have any newsletter, but for Mastodon: - Compile tut, it just requires Go, it will run on any modern OS. - Login with tut - Set a 'tview' shell (sh) script as #/bin/sh chafa -f sixel --fit-width "$@" | less -r" reset - Configure tut, set program=tview in the [media.image] section. - Then launch XTerm as 'xterm -ti 340'. Edit ~/.Xresources so you have nice fonts: xterm*background: black xterm*foreground: white xterm*loginShell: true xterm*faceName: Monospace xterm*faceSize: 10 xterm*geometry: 100x32 xterm*metaSendsEscape: true xterm*decTerminalID: vt340 xterm*numColorRegisters: 256 xterm*sixelScrolling: 1 xterm*sixelScrollsRight: 1 Done. Edit the facesize value to a bigger font if you have a big resolution. Run "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults" to get the changes. Also, you can run chafa locally with images such as "chafa -f sixel --fit-with foo.img', no need to login into a VPS, of course, it just was a proof of concept that you could see images over SSH. This can be really useful for instance to read graph/plots with Gnuplot or similar tools. If any, subscribe to T3X's news letter and get some books, as these small tools will pay a lot in near future. No AI crap, small enough to run on some sets, from Statistics to semi-advanced math (even Zenlisp being crap can do complex numbers, and you can adapt the code for instance for S9 so that interpreter Scheme understand complex numbers and a much faster speed). Yeah, Python+SAGEMATH, CUDA with number crunching and the like. How much are the GPU's, CPU's and SSD's going nowadays in dollars?
  - kjs3 5mo ago
    "I would like to subscribe to your newsletter" is an old neck-beard way of saying 'I really like what you're doing there' from the before time. The humor probably got lost over the years. But seriously, thanks for sketching that out. I will definitely give it a spin.