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A X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals, based on @pelya's Xsdl kdrive server(https://github.com/pelya/xserver-xsdl)

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2019-03-29 · latest 2025-09-23

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    X server implementation for SIXEL-featured terminals (2010-2014)
    story by jesprenj · 2025-09-23 · 14 comments
  2. It already exists for Sixel: https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel ...but at that point X forwarding or VNC seems more useful.
  3. …want crazy, run `xterm -ti 340`, then run run an X server from the xserver-sixel repository < https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL > in it. Now y ou can run as many terminal emulators, complete with real truetype fonts and all the…
  4. There's a X with sixel support: https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel I played with this before, and I could use X11 within a mlterm terminal. I should try to recompile it with cosmopolitan to have a single X server binary both for…
  5. …center horizontal; plot [-5 pi:5 pi] [-5:5] real(tan(x)/atan(x)), 1/x"`.) Now run Xsixel (from < https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-sixel >) to run an X server that outputs to sixel graphics. In that X server you can run any program you…
  6. …I have also played with a X server rendering over sixel, no performance issue: https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL When sixel support is added to Windows Terminal, I may update it, because it would be fun to have one tab to run stuf
  7. https://github.com/saitoha/xserver-SIXEL I haven't tried that but issues tell that even mouse works with Firefox in terminal.