libsixel VS euporie

Library you can use to generate these images:

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

Plenty of links to other projects.

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;

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.

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.

You don't have multi-colored terminal output? Even legacy systems have long had Sixel support.

> 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

Currently it's part of euporie-notebook, but I'm planning on splitting it out and publishing the web-browser as an independent project.

You can get most of the way there with euporie:

https://github.com/joouha/euporie

I don't support audio yet, but it should be possible using DECPS escape sequences

If you use euporie [1], you can draw plots in a Jupyter notebook in the terminal using matotlib and friends, and have them displayed using terminal graphics.

[1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie

Now with xontrib-jupyter you can use xonsh language in web-based Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab and in terminal-based Euporie.

https://github.com/joouha/euporie in a a separate terminal works fine for me.

Why synchronize if you can stay in the terminal

I would like a rust lib to build a terminal UI like this: https://i.imgur.com/d5mo8ce.png - that's euporie (https://github.com/joouha/euporie) implemented Python using the prompt_toolkit(?) - it's very pretty and even mouse works...

I'm working on a TUI Jupyter Notebook editor, euporie, which allows you to run and edit Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal.

https://github.com/joouha/euporie

It's useful for editing and running notebooks on remote servers over SSH, or inside containers where setting up port forwarding is not possible or too difficult, or if you just like working in the terminal.

It's open-source, and I have no idea how I would go about monetizing it!

I've spent a lot of time recently working on euporie's HTML renderer, which I'm planning on using to make a new terminal web-browser.

If people are looking for a more JupyterLab like environment for the terminal, you could try euporie [1] (I am the author).

It supports vim and emacs style key-bindings, and can display rich cell output like images and widgets.

[1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie