Sixel-tmux Alternatives

sixel-tmux reviews and mentions

• Sixel Sabotage in VTE (Gnome Terminal)
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2024
• Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images
  12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2024

  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/

• Zellij – A terminal workspace with batteries included (tmux alternative)
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2024

  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?

• I Just Wanted Emacs to Look Nice – Using 24-Bit Color in Terminals
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024

  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

• Terminal Graphics Protocol
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023

  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.

• How would you work effectively with an extremely slow 56Kbps connection?
  12 projects | /r/linux | 5 Dec 2023

  sixel-tmux can help you have both: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

• Are We Sixel Yet
  15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 May 2023

  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

• UnicodePlots
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023

  > 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
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2023
• Anyone know a Prefixed based terminal emulator that supports Image Preview of some sort? Tmux style keybindings, for splits, tabs, and sessions
  1 project | /r/commandline | 19 Mar 2023

  Maybe tmux-sixel does that tmux sixel

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