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termite
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Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
- you can also rectangular select like in vim, and then press either p (includes LF) or which joins the multiline clipboard text into a single line (removing LF's), that payed off a lot for output like `git status` and wanting to operate on parts of the output (files e.g.)
Have a look at the still young website's documentation here: https://contour-terminal.org/input-modes/#supported-text-obj...
for a more complete look of what you can do with the keyboard (normal mode) :)
[1] https://github.com/thestinger/termite/
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GNOME’s horrid coding practices
Also, regarding VTE, the author of termite (discontinued terminal emulator) expressed similar concerns about the GNOME devs. Apparently, they have little interest in making the library useful to people not working on GNOME apps: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
- Wayland Core Protocol Is Tailored Only for Gnome and That’s Not a Good Thing
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Help me to find a minimal terminal that supports full transparency
Termite is obsolete by Alacritty.
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Why are kitty and alacritty so popular? Where's the foot love?
I simply do not want to use anything libvte based. And that's what sakura is and termite used to be.
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Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
History and experience tells a different story [1]. Never trust a library that is maintained by GNOME.
1.: https://github.com/thestinger/termite
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System76: A Case Study on How Not To Collaborate With Upstream
This post by the Termite developer, with respect to VTE, is quite instructive
- Why is termite not in arch's official repositories?
- Recommended terminal emulator for swaywm?
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Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
> https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst...
Wow, this confirms a lot of my impressions:
>> In 2012, we submitted a tiny patch exposing the APIs needed for the keyboard text selection, hints mode and other features. Despite support from multiple other projects, the patch was rejected. It's now almost a decade later and no progress has been made. There is no implementation of these kinds of features in VTE and it's unlikely they'll be provided either internally or as flexible APIs. This is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to their hostility towards other projects using VTE as a library. GTK and most of the GNOME project are much of the same. Avoid them and don't make the mistake of thinking their libraries are meant for others to use.
This is exactly why sixel-tmux exists as a separate entity!
> Yeah, I read the entire conversation and if sixel support lands in tmux upstream, it would indeed be good news.
I'll keep my fingers crossed, but right now, there seems to be a lot of good will. I will do everything I can.
sixel-tmux
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Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
It's not really that strange that tmux doesn't support sixels. It's quite a bit more complicated and resource-intensive than ANSI Escape Codes or ncurses.
It might be fine for local[1] multiplexing but over the network it is not as fast as even something like VNC or RDP.
[1] https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/
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Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative)
After having spent too much time trying to get the simple https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ features into mainline tmux (last November https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3753), maybe it'd be easier to jump ship as use zellij?
Could anyone offer recommendations on "riced" zellij configuations, or just a demo where it shows doing with (say charts of disk usage per folder), watching a movie with mpv + keeping a vim to type on?
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I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals
Your approach looks very sound!
A fork of terminfo may be needed if the description of modern terminal capabilities can't be added -- or if old and deprecated attributes repurposed for that job (like in your padding example): if you're automating the correction/creation of terminfos in ~/, IMHO, it may be better to piggyback on tic as much as possible.
Anyway, to backport modern terminal descriptions to legacy programs, creating correct binary terminfos in ~/.terminfo seems the best practice. You can also invent new TERM. When I wanted to have italics etc about everywhere, personally that's just what I did for sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/?tab=readme-ov-file#ste... : just declare a new $TERM you know to be right, and use that in the apps that let you use a little logic in their configuration file
I do that in my .vimrc:
" If Vim doesn't know the escape codes to switch to italic
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Terminal Graphics Protocol
You can have that functionality integrated within tmux with https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ : if you terminal doesn't support sixels, you'll at least see something close to the picture they represent.
Then of course it's not pixel-perfect unless you make your terminal very large (like 800x240 instead of 80x24) but something being better than nothing, I'd argue it's for the better if all you can do is 80x24 with no pictures otherwise.
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How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
sixel-tmux can help you have both: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/
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Are We Sixel Yet
See also rant[1] of sixel-tmux author.
> It's 2021, and we should be able to do litterate programming in the console, with full graphical support.
Yeah. We are stuck cosplaying computers from the sixties.
What's even funnier, even if you find a modern terminal emulator that supports features like ligatures, graphics, emoji etc. you still will be blocked by tmux. Sure - not everyone needs tmux. If you never work on remote machines, you can live without it.
But I work on remote machines all the time. I also use Kakoune text editor that defers window management to external tools (WM or tmux, but to be honest, tmux is much better). Zellij is more of r/unixporn bait than usable tool for now. So I'm stuck with text only interface.
[1]: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md
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UnicodePlots
> Some terminal emulators have support for images, which fit most of the use cases here but not the one I described.
That what sixel-tmux is for, when you're in a hurry and needs images with your current terminal emulator: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux
- Some maintainers are holding users hostage to favor their preferred formats
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Anyone know a Prefixed based terminal emulator that supports Image Preview of some sort? Tmux style keybindings, for splits, tabs, and sessions
Maybe tmux-sixel does that tmux sixel
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Switched Back to Windows After a Year and a Half of Linux
If you want some crazy shit like sixels or italics and ligatures, try msys2 that's what I've used for the screenshot. The only thing comparable on Linux in term of features is xterm and, that's another story.
What are some alternatives?
kitty - Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal
sixvid - Simple script for animated GIF viewing using sixels
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
viu - Terminal image viewer with native support for iTerm and Kitty
st - build of the suckless simple terminal with patches for alpha, font2, copyurl, openclipboard, invert, appsync, xresources, scrollback, w3m, keyboard select, boxdraw
Windows Terminal - The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!
gruvbox - Retro groove color scheme for Vim
iterm2
mpv - 🎥 Command line video player
dunst - Lightweight and customizable notification daemon
FFmpeg-SIXEL - Experimental fork git://source.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git