Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
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Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#2Ooo I didn't even know that Sixel was a thing.
This looks fun
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#3The rant is a much better read and insight into the reason for this: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#4Ooo I didn't even know that Sixel was a thing. This looks fun
I tinkered a bit with sixel support for my "C64 emulator in the terminal" (https://github.com/floooh/docker-c64), but unfortunately it's way too slow to get anywhere near 'realtime' output (30fps or better).
Here's the (abandondend) sixel-version source code, only with two colors, more color planes would drastically reduce the performance.
https://github.com/floooh/chips-test/blob/master/examples/as...
I really wish there was a decent pixel-framebuffer standard for terminals (with at least the same performance as ncurses). This would allow a lot of fun "terminal applications" (e.g. everything that used to run in VGA Mode 13h).
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#5This is really interesting (to me anyway).
I normally just default to using Gnome Terminal on Linux, which sadly doesn't support Sixels, so I'll definitely give this a go.
Looking around I've just found Foot, which looks like it does support Sixel on Wayland[1].
So that might be a more permanent way forward.
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#6On a tangent, it would be awesome to have tmux for Windows Terminal without WSL (i.e. a native windows app). I've remapped Windows Terminal shortcuts to be like tmux bindings which gets me closer but it's still not the same.
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#7This is really interesting (to me anyway). I normally just default to using Gnome Terminal on Linux, which sadly doesn't support Sixels, so I'll definitely give this a go. Looking around I've just found Foot, which looks like it does support Sixel on Wayland[1]. So that might be a more permanent way forward. 1. https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot
Any insight into how this one compares to Alacritty and Kitty?
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#8This is lovely.
The author recommended XTerm as one of the best, so I would like to suggest trying Kitty for size for graphics.
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#9Sixel is a terrible encoding. Most of the newer terminals have escape sequences for sending base64 encoded png/gif/jpg--for higher quality output & lower bandwidth.
Re: Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support
#10For macos users using iTerm2, installing the integration provides ‘imgcat’ and ‘imgls’. Not sure about tmux support though.