WordPerfect for Unix (1992) used sixel graphics

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  • easybashgui

    EasyBashGUI is a Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, gum, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X server running or not.

    Absolutely, especially if you watch (and lament) the absolute mess that is GUI programming in Linux. I feel like something like https://github.com/BashGui/easybashgui (in terms of user/creator experience) shouldn't be that hard.

  • sixel-tmux

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

    > Sixel should be more universal

    Agreed!

    So try sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

    > It would allow non-sw engineers (hence Windows)

    I run Windows 11 as my main OS. sixel-tmux was written to help the users of non-sixel-aware terminals: every time a sixel sequence is intercepted, it's either:

    - rewritten to ASCII art through derasterize if your terminal doesn't support sixels

    - passed as-is if your terminal supports sixels

    > to see graphics from embedded systems that use serial ports

    If you use a serial port software such as minicom inside a terminal running sixel-tmux (ex: Windows terminal) it should work

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  • Windows Terminal

    The new Windows Terminal and the original Windows console host, all in the same place!

    There's been talk about adding sixel support to windows term for a couple years. I went back to BSD as a daily driver as work on this issue started picking up, but it looks like progress is being made:

    https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/448

  • contour

    Modern C++ Terminal Emulator (by christianparpart)

  • wezterm

    A GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust

  • sixel-gnuplot

    GNUplot with sixel support

    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

  • pandoc

    Universal markup converter

    You should be able to convert those to something WordPerfect will eat using tools such as Pandoc.

    Pandoc will generate RTF, which WordPerfect can read.

    https://pandoc.org/

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