A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell

Re:A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell by lelanthran on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @09:31AM (#34161293)

The Enlightenment terminal had some nice ideas (specifically, displaying image files and videos in the terminal itself).

Too bad it was so unstable I stopped using it. Should maybe give Enlightenment another try in the coming year.

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Re:A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell by still_grokking on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @10:55AM (#34162219)

For images and videos you want SIXEL support. Quite some terminal emulators support this nowadays.

https://saitoha.github.io/libsixel/

But that's just another "layer of craziness", imho. (Even it's quite cool).

I think the whole terminal should be replaced. Not even with something funky. Just a proper RPC + streaming protocol based on some sane modern tech. (No, no HTTP! Simple and lightweight. Tailor made for the task. So it works also in an embedded setting; and lasts for the next 50 years :-)). Of course it should also have separate control and data channels. (That's a mayor flaw of the "classical" terminal tech. The in-band transport of control is a big PITA, and can be even an security risk).

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Re:A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell by csdvrx on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @01:50PM (#34164293)

> For images and videos you want SIXEL support. Quite some terminal emulators support this nowadays.

And if they don't, https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux will give you the best rendering it can do

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Re:A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell by cyberge99 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @11:12AM (#34162405)

iTerm on macos has this if you install the iterm shel integration.

“imgcat filename.jpg” for example will display the image in your shell/terminal.

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