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sixel-gnuplot
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UnicodePlots
A few years ago, you had to recompile it to add sixel support on debian, so I provided https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot
Now it's included by default IIRC
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Forking Chrome to Render in a Terminal
sixel-tmux works literally anywhere you can use tmux: as long you can display unicodes on your terminal, the sixels will be "captured" by sixel-tmux and converted into something you can see. Sixels are in-band, so ssh isn't a problem.
In a way, using sixel-tmux is like "giving magical goggles" to your terminal, to let it render sixels so you can see something (even if it isn't perfect), in the hope you'll be tempted to use a better terminal that will show you sixels in all their glory, with a pixel perfect quality.
Sixels enable all kind of cool things, like gnuplot right in your terminal (cf https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot ): sometimes I even watch youtube on my terminal lol
sixel-tmux was made as a first step towards turning derasterize into a more general library: my plan was to add it to nnn but I got bored along the way and moved to other stuff. I might still do that I I love nnn as a filemanager.
BTW, even if there have been quite a few interesting work by @hpa and others in the last 2 years, I think derasterize still has textmode supremacy. derasterize is a collab with @jart after I started adding features to her previous solutions which was based on half blocks like this solution; she's also made further work based on this like https://justine.lol/printimage.html and https://justine.lol/printvideo.html
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WordPerfect for Unix (1992) used sixel graphics
That's also my main usecase: doing plots with gnuplot
A few years ago, it wasn't compiled by default in the debian packages so I released binaries: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot
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Why modern Linux console is slower than 10 years ago
I wish framebuffer consoles would support sixels to do without X or wayland, mostly to have inline plots line https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot without having to use say fbi
> On the other hand, text output to the console has generally gotten slower, usually much slower than you would expect for the change in console size
I don't see why we should tolerate slow rendering of text. The techniques recently used to accelerate text rendering in Windows Terminal should be usable in the framebuffer console.
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termplotlib: Plots in the terminal
and sixel support can be made to work with this: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot
contour
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Neovide – 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 – 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.
What are some alternatives?
feedgnuplot - Tool to plot realtime and stored data from the commandline, using gnuplot.
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
itermplot - An awesome iTerm2 backend for Matplotlib, so you can plot directly in your terminal.
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
alacritty-sixel - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
terminal-unicode-core - Unicode Core specification for Terminal (grapheme clusters, character widths, ...)
term-gfx - Terminal Graphics
nchat - Terminal-based Telegram / WhatsApp client for Linux and macOS
lfimg-sixel - Image preview support for lf-sixel
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
libsixel - A SIXEL encoder/decoder implementation derived from kmiya's sixel (https://github.com/saitoha/sixel).
terminalpp - A C++ library for interacting with ANSI terminal windows.