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glkitty
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larkmjc / glkitty

glkitty

port of the OpenGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol

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What it is

port of the OpenGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-04-05 17:35:49 UTC to 2024-05-25 15:18:04 UTC.

012022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20232023-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 2024

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Apr 20222022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20222022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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What Hacker News says

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follower·May 25, 2024
Based on my (limited) understanding of Kitty's image protocol[0] (a.k.a the "Terminal graphics protocol") video support could be potentially implemented via multiple approaches, including at least: (1) Draw image repeatedly using the "don't move cursor" cursor movement policy[1a][1b]. (2) Draw image replacing an existing image with the same id. (3) Use animation configured to use "loading mode"[2] ("in this mode when reaching the last frame, instead of looping, the terminal will wait for the arrival of more frames"). An actual terminal graphics/image protocol enables some IMO[3] pretty cool possibilities: * A while back I implemented a proof-of-concept that displayed a simple interactive egui (a Rust immediate mode GUI project) GUI within WezTerm via the protocol. * Later I discovered someone had gone as far as making a port[5] of the Ope
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nGL gears demo to kitty terminal graphics protocol. * And there's even a "full graphical web browser for Kitty terminal with mouse and keyboard support"[6][7]. ---- footnotes ---- (Content advisory for links: Kitty terminal graphics protocol spec includes a sample image whose subject has requested that the image no longer be used for such purposes.) [0] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#terminal-... [1a] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#controlli... [1b] This approach appears to be the method used by the mpv implementation: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/commit/874e28f4a41a916bb56... [2] https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#controlli... [3] I'm aware that not everyone will think static or dynamic image display is something a terminal "should do" but to me it seems better to have actual image support in terminals rather than use (already currently used) existing "hacks" that provide a poor facsimile of support[4]. [4] Then again, I'm also of the opinion[4a] that perhaps terminals should support actual graphical UIs rather than the poor facsimile of them delivered by TUIs. *cough* :D [4a] Motivated by the thought that at the current point in time perhaps the "essence" of a "terminal" is its linear "chronological" presentation of input/interaction/output history rather than its use of "text". (See also: "lab notebooks" & some tiling window manager features.) [5] https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty [6] https://github.com/chase/awrit [7] Which I imagine DEC is turning in its grave about. :)
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varbhat·Apr 5, 2022
I use configured zsh which has majority of features mentioned above. It is integrated with fzf and also has autcompletions(with help description), autosuggestions,hints, file completions and more. You can see my zsh dotfiles below. https://github.com/varbhat/dotfiles/tree/main/dot_config/zsh I could even have enabled real time type ahead completions with this plugin but i haven't (because i don't need this feature) : https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete i use my current configuration on foot terminal (which itself is blazing fast and boasts fastest vtt parser) in linux and kitty terminal (which is very feature rich, even has terminal graphics protocol so that you can even run glxgears(opengl cube demo: https://github.com/michaeljclark/glkitty) on it) on linux and macos. i am sure that other shells such has fish also have thes
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e features. So, what benefits do i get on switching to warp? currently,i don't see any except few marketing words which aren't enough for me to start using warp. I might be missing something but i am all ears.
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