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story by giulianopz · 2024-08-30 · 2 comments

…local[1] multiplexing but over the network it is not as fast as even something like VNC or RDP. [1] https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/

comment by xk3 · 2024-04-17 · in Show HN: a Rust based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images

After having spent too much time trying to get the simple https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ features into mainline tmux (last November https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/3753 ), maybe it'd be easier to jump ship as use zellij? Could…

comment by csdvrx · 2024-02-05 · in Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included

…I wanted to have italics etc about everywhere, personally that's just what I did for sixel-tmux: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/?tab=readme-ov-file#ste... : just declare a new $TERM you know to be right, and use that in the apps that…

comment by csdvrx · 2024-01-30 · in I just wanted Emacs to look nice – Using 24-bit color in terminals

…else, I spent some time to have tmux intercept and transcode sixel sequences into "ascii art" ( https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ ) have bash save commands start and stop time in a sqlite database (…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-12-27 · in Show HN: CuteVim – Portable Vim with a cute vimrc

You can have that functionality integrated within tmux with https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ : if you terminal doesn't support sixels, you'll at least see something close to the picture they represent. Then of course it's not…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-12-07 · in Terminal graphics protocol

…support sixels (yet), sixel-tmux will convert them "in flight" into derasterized graphics: see https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/ I'm sure this tech stack (X apps -> Xsixel -> sixel-tmux -> text) will make many people cringe, but in…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-12-07 · in Terminal graphics protocol

…is more of r/unixporn bait than usable tool for now. So I'm stuck with text only interface. [1]: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md

comment by TeddyDD · 2023-05-14 · in Are We Sixel Yet

…sixel-tmux is for, when you're in a hurry and needs images with your current terminal emulator: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

comment by csdvrx · 2023-04-10 · in UnicodePlots

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story by behnamoh · 2023-03-22 · 0 comments

…sixel-less terminal the sixel-tmux googles and you'll see an ascii rendition of the sixel images: https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux It's not ideal unless you use a very small font, but it's better than nothing. BTW some people recompile…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-03-13 · in cat mario.nes | nc play-nes.org 4444

And for terminals that don't support sixel yet, sixel-tmux will let you see them: http://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux For example with Windows Terminal: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/main/exa... OP, if you want to…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-01-27 · in Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

Then try sixel-tmux https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux

comment by csdvrx · 2023-01-14 · in A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal

…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

comment by csdvrx · 2022-12-28 · in A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

…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 (or if you use the scrollback…

comment by csdvrx · 2022-09-13 · in Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

…, 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 :)

comment by csdvrx · 2022-07-28 · in Rust is actually portable

> 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…

comment by csdvrx · 2022-07-18 · in WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)

…low hanging fruits! Personally, I'm eagerly waiting for Sixel support in WT, until then I suggest https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux to derasterize sixels and show them even in terminals that don't support sixels. If you find such things…

comment by csdvrx · 2022-05-15 · in How many colors are too many colors for Windows Terminal?

…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…

comment by csdvrx · 2021-11-14 · in 0xA000 Font Family – A tile mastered font-family

…use it _now_. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel 1 - https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ 2 - https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux 3 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28756701 4 - https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANT…

comment by charlesdaniels · 2021-10-13 · in Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code

…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 the end of the tunnel! Yeah, I read the entire conversation…

comment by _2paq · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

…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…

comment by csdvrx · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

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…

comment by csdvrx · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

…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

comment by _2paq · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

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

comment by dinedal · 2021-10-05 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux displays graphics even if your terminal has no Sixel support

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story by csdvrx · 2021-10-05 · 86 comments

…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…

comment by csdvrx · 2019-11-27 · in Show HN: Sixel-tmux, display graphics because it does not eat escape sequences

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story by csdvrx · 2019-11-27 · 6 comments

…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!

comment by csdvrx · 2019-11-27 · in Eternal Terminal