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csdvrx
sixel-tmux
C2019–2024
csdvrx / sixel-tmux

sixel-tmux

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

8Distinct people
29Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
514GitHub stars
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What it is

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

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Where it is used

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> The thing about sixel is it's only supported on old DEC glass terminals, xterm with a non-default configuration, mintty, and several emulators that are fairly unlikely to be…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year29 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-11-27 01:33:17 UTC to 2024-08-30 07:20:41 UTC.

02468102019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2024

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

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Following the discussion on ET, here is my current work on a tmux fork to focus on accurate rendering of graphics (ANSI and sixels) My main goal is to be able to use sixel-gnuplot (a simple recompilation of gnuplot with the sixel backend enabled: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-gnuplot ) on both remote and local hosts, in split windows. A few issues remain to do that, but it already works in horizontal split windows after 2 days: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/master/sixel-tmux.... You can recompile the source within msys2 on Windows 10; I also provide a binary on https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/raw/master/sixel-tmux.e...
In Show HN: Sixel-tmux, display graphics because it does not eat escape sequences
csdvrx·Nov 27, 2019Recommendation phrase
I do. I have found yesterday and today several strange issues, and a pattern of breaking more things with new features - like deciding to silently drop lines. So I decide to work a little more on my fork on https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux You can see how it handles SGR attributes (bold, italic, underline) and also sixels. I love sixels!
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