sixel-tmux

By the same author, the 1FB00 unicode block: https://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf I think it's even more interesting, as it will improve the textual rendition of graphics for people who can't use sixels. See also Chafa https://hpjansson.org/blag/2021/09/16/chafa-1-8-terminal-gra... for more details, and sixel-tmux https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux to transform sixels into unicode if your terminal doesn't support sixels. I'm waiting for 1FB00 support in Iosevka: https://en.m.fontke.com/font/131973120/charset/2201/

I would point out that sixels[0] exist. There is a nice library, libsixel[1] for working with it, which includes bindings into many languages. If the author of sixel-tmux[2][3] is to be believed[4], the relative lack of adoption is a result of unwillingness on the part of maintainers of some popular open source terminal libraries to implement sixel support. I can't comment on that directly, but I will say, it's pretty damn cool to see GnuPlot generating output right into one's terminal. lsix[5] is also pretty handy as well. But yeah, I agree, I'm not a fan of all the work that has gone into "terminal graphics" that are based on unicode. It's a dead-end, as was clear to DEC even back in '87 (and that's setting aside that the VT220[6] had it's own drawing capabilities, though they were more limited). Maybe sixel isn't the best possible way

> Thanks for being understanding. No problem. I know maintaining forks isn't an ideal thing to do and support should ideally land upstream. > I believe it's unfair that Linux users have fewer options than us Windows users, due to some people thinking sixel is "uncool". I think the README page of termite pretty much sums up why getting involved in VTE, or any GNOME project for that matter, is a bad decision. https://github.com/thestinger/termite/blob/master/README.rst... I'm just a random spectator but perhaps your efforts might've been better spent on an independent terminal project (like Alacritty, for example) rather than trying to get features merged upstream in a GNOME project. > However, the situation seems to be changing: check the discussion in: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/pull/1 and you'll see there may be some light at t

Thanks for being understanding. To be honest, Windows fangirl? guilty as charged! But I try to keep my personal opinions separate, which is why my rants are on a separate page. Still, you nailed it: sixel-tmux was made to try to help correct the direction that has been taken, with 6 years wasted. I believe it's unfair that Linux users have fewer options than us Windows users, due to some people thinking sixel is "uncool". Desperate times call for desperate measures. Publishing this fork was a last resort move, for the exact reasons you stated: forks are often lost in obscurity. However, the situation seems to be changing: check the discussion in: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/pull/1 and you'll see there may be some light at the end of the tunnel! A compile time flag is not ideal, but if at least derasterize can be added by default,

Try sixel-tmux compiled with msys2 in Windows-Terminal: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/tmux.exe Or compile it yourself using MinGW64 : after installing from msys2.org, pacman -S base-devel etc It works fine here. I have a Windows Terminal settings to start sixel-tmux instead of bash, using script to provide a pty: just have the command line be: C:/msys64/usr/bin/env.exe MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict MSYSTEM=MSYS /usr/bin/script -c /usr/bin/tmux /dev/null

Hard forks rarely get traction and are almost always lost in obscurity, unless the original project itself is abandoned. tmux isn't abandoned so I doubt this fork will end up being used by more than a handful of people. EDIT: Yup, as suspected, the author doesn't intend to keep his fork updated with upstream and I don't blame him for that. This essentially makes this fork a proof of concept, nothing more. Unless it gets merged in tmux itself, people might as well forget that this fork exists. https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/pull/1

The rant is a much better read and insight into the reason for this: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md