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contour
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Neovide β a simple, no-nonsense, cross-platform GUI for Neovim
Another problem is that the cursor moves while the screen is buffer is being rendered. The location is only really known once the cursor settles in the same place for some time, which is unacceptable in terms of latency.
The synchronized output extension could be used to do this, though. https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/blob/master/docs...
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 16 October 2023
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Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/382
This apparently does not support the Kitty graphics protocol, just Sixel, which makes it look fairly unattractive to me, personally.
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Terminal emulators that break from the traditional rendering approach?
contour - https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour. https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/issues/100 and other modern unicode focused attempts to update the terminal world
- Contour Terminal β A Modern and Cross-Platform C++ Terminal Emulator
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Name a program that doesn't get enough love!
contour : a terminal application
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Is there a way to make Dolphin use a terminal app other than Konsole?
https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour Contour has a implementation for this. See this release: https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour/releases/tag/v0.3.6.240
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Speeding up incremental Rust compilation with dylibs - Robert Krahn
Now that I'm well rested I decided to compile some similar terminal emulators with clang++ and rustc to see how big of a gap we're looking at. For the C++ terminal emulator I compiled contour with ~80k lines of C++ and over 200k lines when accounting for dependencies (not including dynamically linked dependencies), and then I'm using alacritty with ~35k lines of Rust and over 2 million (!) lines for the whole dependency tree when vendoring all dependencies. Because Rust tries to make most software cross platform with conditional compilation and many of these aren't Linux specific libraries I'm gonna assume it's compiling half or two thirds of the lines of dependencies for this experiment with the C++ compiling probably 3/4ths of the dependency tree considering I'm not on windows.
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What terminal emulator do you use?
I have my eyes on this though.
libsixel
- GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way
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VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics
Library you can use to generate these images:
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
Plenty of links to other projects.
- UnicodePlots
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Forking Chrome to Render in a Terminal
Sixels are pixels and enjoy a wide support due to how old it is.
Kitty protocol is PNG or primitives - which BTW would make it great for a GUI library.
Different tools for different needs, but if you are going for a wide support you want something simple that doesn't have 5 different types you have to separately implement and test:
> d: Direct (the data is transmitted within the escape code itself)
> f: A simple file (regular files only, not named pipes or similar)
> t: A temporary file, the terminal emulator will delete the file after reading the pixel data. For security reasons the terminal emulator should only delete the file if it is in a known temporary directory, such as /tmp, /dev/shm, TMPDIR env var if present and any platform specific temporary directories and the file has the string tty-graphics-protocol in its full file path.
> s: A shared memory object, which on POSIX systems is a POSIX shared memory object and on Windows is a Named shared memory object. The terminal emulator must read the data from the memory object and then unlink and close it on POSIX and just close it on Windows.
> What nonsense, it takes literally 15 lines of code without using anything beyond the standard library to write a client
Conveniently taking a preencoded PNG and assuming away the necessary queries of supported protocol:
> Since a client has no a-priori knowledge of whether it shares a filesystem/shared memory with the terminal emulator, it can send an id with the control data, using the i key (which can be an arbitrary positive integer up to 4294967295, it must not be zero).
> for the kitty graphics protocol. I challenge you to match that for sixel
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/tree/master/perl
use Image::LibSIXEL;
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A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal
Also:
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
contains img2sixel, which lets you dump images to the terminal. It can also do animated GIFs.
Video:
https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL
GUI apps:
https://github.com/saitoha/SDL1.2-SIXEL
and more, linked from the libsixel repository.
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Emacs on an iPad
Not sure of Terminal emulator capabilities on Apple devices, but thanks to https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel , several applications, including emacs very much support image output in terminals.
- Libsixel
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What color do you use for your terminal?
You don't have multi-colored terminal output? Even legacy systems have long had Sixel support.
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Are We Sixel Yet?
> SIXEL is one of image formats for printer and terminal imaging introduced by Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC). Its data scheme is represented as a terminal-friendly escape sequence. So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal
https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
- Saw a few console apps and thought I might pitch in/show my own graphics library for the C# Console: The BasicRender Suite
What are some alternatives?
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
mpv - π₯ Command line video player
terminal-unicode-core - Unicode Core specification for Terminal (grapheme clusters, character widths, ...)
chafa - πΊπΏ Terminal graphics for the 21st century.
nchat - Terminal-based Telegram / WhatsApp client for Linux and macOS
xterm-addon-image - Image addon for xterm.js
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
urxvt-perls - Perl extensions for the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator
terminalpp - A C++ library for interacting with ANSI terminal windows.
urxvt-perls - Perl extensions for the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator