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…is in the libsixel repository, because the README here is just the original Xorg one unaltered. * https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#x11-on-sixel-terminals

comment by JdeBP · 2025-09-23 · in X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals (2010-2014)

saitoha/libsixel looks alive and kicking to me https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commits/master/ the x server (OP link) is inactive indeed

comment by froh · 2025-09-23 · in X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals (2010-2014)

How about this then: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by ranger_danger · 2025-09-11 · in Show HN: Term.everything – Run any GUI app in the terminal

…https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_framebuffer XTerm can as well, if built with Sixel support: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel

comment by msla · 2023-08-07 · in Gnu/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (somewhat) practical way

…- then try to have a LTE data connection, using w3m with its sixel mode to visit google news https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#w3m-integration - try to integrate SMS, twitter etc within one client (twitter example:…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-05-17 · in Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

Library you can use to generate these images: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel Plenty of links to other projects.

comment by msla · 2023-05-15 · in VT330/VT340 Sixel Graphics

…will display images. https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html there is also sixel. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by joshu · 2023-04-09 · in UnicodePlots

…(AFAIK) some terminals support more than 256 colors (e.g. see the screenshot in the readme here: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel ). But I guess the Wikipedia logo looks just fine with 256 colors.

comment by flohofwoe · 2023-03-14 · in Sixel: A terminal bitmap graphics format from the 80s

…Challenge accepted. There are many libraries for many languages. Let's look at this one in perl: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/tree/master/perl use Image::LibSIXEL; $encoder = Image::LibSIXEL::Encoder->new(); $encoder->setopt("w",…

comment by csdvrx · 2023-01-28 · in Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

…to go even deeper down the terminal graphics rabbit hole you should look into adding sixel support. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

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

Also: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel contains img2sixel, which lets you dump images to the terminal. It can also do animated GIFs. Video: https://github.com/saitoha/FFmpeg-SIXEL GUI apps: https://github.com/saitoha/SDL1.2-SIXEL and…

comment by msla · 2023-01-13 · in A command line tool that draw plots on the terminal

…emacs very much support image output in terminals. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel [2] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by FrostKiwi · 2022-11-24 · in Emacs on an iPad

Many terminals can do this, see a list based on SIXEL support: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#terminal-requirements This list is not complete, KDE konsole supports this too (and other formats) for example.

comment by yaantc · 2022-09-16 · in Building the Future of the Command Line

…woah, lots of fascinating reading and links here -- since I was not much aware of sixel before: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel The sixel format itself seems to match really well with the NetBSD philosophy (among other things, keeping…

comment by marttt · 2022-08-08 · in NetBSD 9.3

…So if you want to view a SIXEL image file, all you have to do is "cat" it to your terminal https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by stevenhuang · 2022-04-20 · in Are We Sixel Yet?

…that is wrong with these terminals. And even the various libsixel examples seems to show dithering: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel If I'm confused then you could be in a great position to help me out, so please explain what apparently…

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

It should be possible: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel (Unless sixel required nul bytes in the encoding)

comment by viraptor · 2021-03-29 · in Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field

…an xterm. Helpful if you are logged in via ssh without X forwarding, and need some graphics... [1] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by dirkt · 2021-01-12 · in XTerm: It's Better Than You Thought

You don’t need to. Most terminals already support graphics. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by Spivak · 2020-10-26 · in imgcat: higher resolution

Not the same principle, but in case you hadn't heard of sixel ( https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel ), there's sixelplot ( https://github.com/kktk-KO/sixelplot )

comment by viraptor · 2020-10-25 · in imgcat: higher resolution

Don't forget the classic SIXEL: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by csande17 · 2020-10-25 · in imgcat: higher resolution

xterm also has sixels, which give reasonably high-resolution color graphics in normal VT340 mode. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel By high-resolution I mean you can display JPEGs using sixels. You can run OpenGL programs using sixels.

comment by msla · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command

It's a VT extension called sixels[1], and requires terminal emulator support. [1]: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by cyphar · 2018-12-27 · in lsix: ls for images

…this is a bash script that outputs sixel graphics, and it in no way makes use of libsixel[0]. [0] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by merlincorey · 2018-12-27 · in lsix: ls for images

I hadn't heard of SIXEL ( https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/master/README.md ) before. It's cool to see a standard for bitmap graphics in the terminal catching on.

comment by panic · 2018-11-28 · in Aminal: Golang terminal emulator from scratch

Libsixel is also pretty sweet. You can even integrate it with sdl and all kinds of crazy shit. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/

comment by kotajacob · 2018-06-15 · in GIF for CLI

…I just don't know how to do it in other terminals. xterm supports sixels, which do real graphics: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel The img2sixel program does what you want in terms of catting an image to the screen and having it show up…

comment by msla · 2018-05-09 · in Eshell as a main shell

For more detail, there's sixels, see https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by daurnimator · 2018-01-05 · in Texttop – An interactive X Linux desktop rendered in TTY and streamable over SSH

…like video and X11 using Sixel, plus it has a list of terminals which support Sixels in the README: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by msla · 2017-11-01 · in Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters

…6x1), but terminal support is… not great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel Some cool images: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel & https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel

comment by helb · 2017-11-01 · in Drawille: Pixel graphics in terminal with Unicode braille characters

Update: Sixels are now supported :) Try it out with one of the terminals listed in https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#terminal-requirements

comment by LEGOlord208 · 2017-06-20 · in Show HN: Termplay: Play videos in your terminal

Cool. https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by jakeogh · 2017-06-20 · in Show HN: Termplay: Play videos in your terminal

…browser (and not with a hack like w3m uses), or playing Battle for Wesnoth inside your terminal [ https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel ]

comment by tilpner · 2017-06-19 · in Show HN: Termplay: Play videos in your terminal

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by digi_owl · 2017-03-18 · in Timg – Terminal Image Viewer

You might find https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/blob/master/README.md of interest.

comment by throwanem · 2017-03-18 · in The Cult of DD

You can build xterm with sixel support https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by tavert · 2017-02-22 · in Show HN: Plot directly in your terminal with matplotlib

I guess we could try running the resulting images through sixel... https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by digi_owl · 2016-08-30 · in Terminal Charts with Victory CLI

…for the latter. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGIS [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel [2] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

comment by digi_owl · 2016-03-07 · in PDF viewer that works inside terminals that support inline graphics