Re: x11/xterm

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:48:23 +0900
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:

> martin@ wrote:
> 
> > > > Anything against enabling sixel-graphics support on x11/xterm?
> > > 
> > > For those of us who don't know what this is, can you please tell
> > > us what this adds and why you want it?
> > 
> > It is a kind of "graphics mode" for old VT320 or newer (heh!)
> > terminals. Allows displaying 1bit b/w pixel graphics on the xterm.
> 
> Sixel itself supports not only 1 bit b/w but also 8 bit colors
> (and there is an extension for more colors).
> 
> See libsixel description for more details:
>  https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel
> (There is a "sixel based Xserver that works over terminal.")
> 
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui

Isn't there a lot of overhead with doing 2D graphics via terminal escape
sequences? I wonder how well this works with remote ssh connections and
slow networks.