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Like "ls", but for images. Shows thumbnails in terminal using sixel graphics.

13 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2018-12-26 · latest 2026-04-16

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  1. …[5] https://man.archlinux.org/man/extra/xscreensaver/phosphor.6.... [6] https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix
  2. …at the readme should work in certain terminals on Windows as well but I haven't tried it. [1] https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix
  3. …edit my post. I just saw that apparently it doesn't work with wezterm on Windows. Sorry about that. https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/issues/69
    comment by krs_ · 2024-06-07 · in lsix: Like "ls", but for images
  4. …-geometry 800x480 sixel:- If your terminal actually does support sixel, please file a bug report at http://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/issues Please mention device attribute codes: ^[[?6c Too bad! That would be pretty spiffy. Is there an…
    comment by metadat · 2024-06-06 · in lsix: Like "ls", but for images
  5. Uses "\e[c" to automatically detect sixel support: https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/blob/3a431793a747df3f934051... "\e[c" is "send device attributes": https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html#h3-F...
    comment by omoikane · 2024-06-06 · in lsix: Like "ls", but for images
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    lsix: Like "ls", but for images
    story by gaws · 2024-06-06 · 135 comments
  7. …not document DECSDM at all. [1] https://github.com/wez/wezterm/issues/217#issuecomment-86449... [2] https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/issues/41 [3] https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/1782 [4]…
    comment by mananaysiempre · 2023-05-14 · in Are We Sixel Yet
  8. …4 - https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/blob/main/RANTS.md 5 - https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix 6 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220
    comment by charlesdaniels · 2021-10-13 · in Using ASCII waveforms to test real-time audio code
  9. …some really nifty terminal applications cropping up. 0 - https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/ 1 - https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix
  10. …that replaces URL containing pictures by their sixels renditions, a bit like what lsix does ( https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix )
  11. …for example to trim white boarders and concatenate, by all means please do! Follow the example of https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix who wrote a great tool!
  12. …whatever the terminals support. The results look good, here is an example of a project using Sixel: https://github.com/hackerb9/lsix/ There is even vector graphics support in Xterm and other terminal emulators (Tektronix mode, and maybe…
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    lsix: ls for images
    story by bb88 · 2018-12-26 · 107 comments