Alacritty with sixel

• alacritty

  352 52,639 9.3 Rust

  A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  

There is a PR https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/pull/4763 but with no result :/ I think more people must push for the change.

• notcurses

  102 3,278 7.2 C

  blingful character graphics/TUI library. definitely not curses.

https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2142 goes into the details. essentially, sixel erasure in alacritty is not a cell-by-cell deal, but rather all-or-nothing requiring erasures spanning the graphic in the vertical dimension (maybe horizontal also works, don't know). it's not that this is "wrong" per se (i don't really consider sixel well-defined), but it's definitely different from how other implementations of which i am aware work.

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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

On the application side, there is as yet exactly one terminal multiplexer that can handle images inside multiple terminals, but someone (saitoha?) did make a dev branch of tmux that could do it. /u/csddvx has I think the most recent version of that ; and her derasterize can make sixel work with non-sixel terminals which is a really neat trick.

• derasterize

  6 103 1.8 C

  textmode supremacy

On the application side, there is as yet exactly one terminal multiplexer that can handle images inside multiple terminals, but someone (saitoha?) did make a dev branch of tmux that could do it. /u/csddvx has I think the most recent version of that ; and her derasterize can make sixel work with non-sixel terminals which is a really neat trick.

• vtm

  24 1,525 9.9 C++

  Text-based desktop environment

  

But there are three other terminal multiplexers / libraries out there (in C++ and Rust) gunning for image support, so we may soon have more fantastic options. (On the multiplexer side, we all love tmux of course, but definitely also peek into vtm and zellij -- I think these two will be the next generation's bleeding edge sooner than we think.)

• zellij

  90 17,192 9.4 Rust

  A terminal workspace with batteries included

  

But there are three other terminal multiplexers / libraries out there (in C++ and Rust) gunning for image support, so we may soon have more fantastic options. (On the multiplexer side, we all love tmux of course, but definitely also peek into vtm and zellij -- I think these two will be the next generation's bleeding edge sooner than we think.)

• chafa

  31 2,604 9.0 C

  📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

libsixel is good, but now there are two encoders even faster: chafa and notcurses. Both of these are very fast. /u/sosodank is currently on a mission to best /u/hpj's chafa and become the undisputed world champ -- but regardless of the outcome we are all blessed to have two incredible implementations to learn from.

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