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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by ReverseCold on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:25AM (#16291202)
Nope, just an iTerm2 feature.

Surprisingly there's nothing similar for Linux distributions - iTerm is for Mac only.

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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by bringtheaction on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:35AM (#16291311)
Well there is HTerm which is available for Linux.

http://41j.com/hterm/

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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by ReverseCold on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:22PM (#16295061)
Not just graphics, iTerm2 has a whole bunch of other features that you can't find in one terminal on Linux.
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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by bringtheaction on Friday February 02, 2018 @08:38PM (#16295634)
Sure but I was responding specifically in the context of GP.

>> Terminals can display images?

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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by vbernat on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:32AM (#16291276)
xterm supports some graphics through Sixel rendering. Never saw a real use of this. On X11, some text browsers, like w3m render images on xterm by painting directly in the xterm window.
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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by kqr on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:35AM (#16323055)
This is a major annoyance for me, a former OS X user (stopped using it turned to shit in all other regards). I have had to work really hard to get text to render well in Linux terminal emulators -- iTerm2 had good typography out or the box, modulo the default typeface.
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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by lmz on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:34AM (#16291298)
xterm has a Tek 4014 mode. Here's an older comment with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904
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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by afdsadf on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:30AM (#16291262)
notty [1], although I believe it's dead currently.

[1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

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Re:Writing space invaders with Go by hota_mazi on Friday February 02, 2018 @03:56PM (#16294141)
You know we live in strange times when Linux falls behind Mac OS on terminal support.
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