Terminal Graphics Protocol

• kitty

  289 21,932 9.9 Python

  Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal

Those existing tools are poorly designed, if you read the article it has a link to the discussion about its design choices, which contains in turn discussion about all the problems with sixel https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/33#issuecomment-2...

• xsixel

  2 1 6.3 C

  Compiling Xorg to render with Sixels inside a terminal

> What's wrong with extending ReGIS, Sixel, or Tektronix (just kidding on that one) protocols? Or, maybe, PostScript/Display PostScript?

Nothing is wrong with them: Sixels for example work perfectly for the task I throw at them in my terminals, from showing pixel perfect images to playing videoswith mpv.

> Can't we define what behavior should a modern terminal have with these already existing tools instead of inventing a brand new wheel?

Actually, something is wrong with these already existing tool: they are preexisting, and therefore someone else idea. If you don't invent a new wheel (on which you can take credit for), you have to recognize that 40 year old technology is now perfectly adequate.

I think it wasn't ideal in the 1980s due to the bandwith requirements, but in 2023, if I can play videos with mpv, I think that's enough for most use.

I think the tech has been adequate for some time (at least about 15 years), and I can freely recognize it both because I have no horse in the game, and I care more about actual use than having a shiny tech.

Inventing a better wheel is the perfect way to avoid confronting such issues: you can argue your new wheel is better, even if in practice it's no different that the old wheel, in the sense it allows your vehicle to go forward for all the practical measures you care about

BTW here's a project I'll try to resurect: rending X applications ... in sixels: https://github.com/csdvrx/xorg-sixel

So you could have graphical applications in your terminal! I've just up. I've only uploaded the picture as I'm still fighting with the code but what you see is Xeyes show inside wezterm thanks to the sixel output of Xorg.

I'm sure it will make many people cringe, but in terms of functionality, it works (latency, bandwidth etc are sufficient for my uses)

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• sixel-tmux

  34 456 0.0 C

  sixel-tmux is a fork of tmux, with just one goal: having the most reliable support of graphics

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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