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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by felixgallo on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:00PM (#34602011)
because man pages don't have screenshots.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by jjtheblunt on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:21PM (#34602348)
it's possible the person asking the question is younger than good old manpages.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by dsr_ on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:53PM (#34604142)
Everyone born after 1972 is younger than man.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by rbanffy on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:28PM (#34604473)
Now I feel very old.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by rbanffy on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:27PM (#34604466)
To be fair, they could. Some VT terminals could display ReGIS and Sixel graphics.

Sixel is a terrible standard, BTW, but at least it can be easily integrated into the character flow of a page. ReGIS (and Tektronix) can't.

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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by sigzero on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @09:48PM (#34605681)
Yet they don't...to be fair.
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Re:Twm − Tab Window Manager for the X Window System by rbanffy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:09PM (#34613669)
I guess that if we manage to force sixel support into xterm, QTermWidget, and VTE, we'd have a reasonable excuse to add graphics support into man and info for terminals that have sixel graphics in their termcap entries.
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