CScsdvrx·Jul 19, 2022
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
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sixel-gnuplot
GNUplot with sixel support
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sixel-tmux works literally anywhere you can use tmux: as long you can display unicodes on your terminal, the sixels will be "captured" by sixel-tmux and converted into…
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 1 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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2 sourcesI wish Linux framebuffer consoles would support sixels to do without X or wayland, mostly to have inline plots line https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot without having to use say fbi
This is possible on NetBSD: https://github.com/isaki68k/misc/blob/master/NetBSD/patch/x6...
Also, more and more terminals are getting Sixel support: https://www.arewesixelyet.com/
> On the other hand, text output to the console has generally gotten slower, usually much slower than you would expect for the change in console size
I don't see why we should tolerate slow rendering of text. Some of the techniques suggested by Casey Muratori (and recently used to accelerate text rendering in Windows Terminal) should also be usable in the framebuffer console.
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