Sixel support to display graphics in the terminal

[X41]

Hi
I've been wondering about displaying graphics in the terminal through Terminator for a while now and a colleague linked me to libsixel[0], a modern implementation of the sixel bitmap graphics format, which allows displaying graphics in a terminal through escape sequences

having that work in Terminator would be super cool and allow very interesting, new applications

[0] https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

[Egmont Koblinger (egmont-gmail)]

Upstream VTE request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729204

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

I'm fairly certain that this is something that would have to be implemented within the libvte widget. This is the library that provides the terminal emulator that Terminator uses. Terminator is a fancy, feature-full Python wrapper around this library, but doesn't handle terminal input/output/rendering directly itself.

[API] https://developer.gnome.org/vte/unstable/
[SOURCE] https://github.com/GNOME/vte
[BUGS] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=product%3A%22vte%22%20

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Ah, Egmont beat me to it. I did have a quick search for a vte feature request while writing my response, but missed the blindingly obvious "sixel" search term :-D

[X41 (w-ubuntuone-j)]

ahh good to know
thanks a lot