sixel-tmux

> For images and videos you want SIXEL support. Quite some terminal emulators support this nowadays. And if they don't, https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux will give you the best rendering it can do

> 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 preinstalled anywhere Uh, no? Just start xterm (say from another xterm) with the correct flag. Sixels are also supported on the BSD console. The lack of support in the likes of gnome-terminal is a willful and ugly political decision that I've already documented. > Images are a different matter, where the compromise makes more sense. Indeed, I love to do remote gnuplots > I can write a script that vomits a jpeg to some vague common denominator standard and it'll probably work for all my coworkers using a smorgasbord of emulators. This is the idea of tmux-sixel https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux : intercept sixels sequences and, if your terminal doesn't support it

And also tysm @jart for derasterize https://github.com/csdvrx/derasterize, which was a great basis to work on, and helped me make sixel-tmux https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux We achieved textmode supremacy, and jart achieved binary-portability supremacy. There seems to be a pattern here :)

> Sixel should be more universal Agreed! So try sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux > It would allow non-sw engineers (hence Windows) I run Windows 11 as my main OS. sixel-tmux was written to help the users of non-sixel-aware terminals: every time a sixel sequence is intercepted, it's either: - rewritten to ASCII art through derasterize if your terminal doesn't support sixels - passed as-is if your terminal supports sixels > to see graphics from embedded systems that use serial ports If you use a serial port software such as minicom inside a terminal running sixel-tmux (ex: Windows terminal) it should work

I find the comments here a bit sad: some say it's "pointless stuff" and Microsoft should now stop working on WT as it's "good enough", others say "8, maybe 16 distinct colors" are all that's needed. I just can't agree with that: I want 24 bit colors in my terminal, I want images, I want alpha blending, I want fonts with advanced attributes... Fortunately, there are a few other people like me. We treasure Windows Terminal (and Foot on Wayland) as in 2022 it is one of the rare terminals that is still evolving and adding features. Pull requests like this one (#11623) and the work that went behind it (exploring the LUT caching issues) are extremely encouraging: they demonstrate there is still a lot of progress possible, with many low hanging fruits! Personally, I'm eagerly waiting for Sixel support in WT, until then I suggest https://github.c