Bug#716660: xterm: Sixel support
On 2013-07-11 21:33 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 09:06:33PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-07-11 04:41 +0200, SATOH Fumiyasu wrote:
>>
>> > Package: xterm
>> > Version: 295-1
>> > Severity: wishlist
>> >
>> > xterm patch #294 supports sixel graphics.
>> >
>> > Please add --enable-sixel-graphics option to the configure
>> > command-line for enabling sixel graphics.
>>
>> Does this option do anything useful yet? So far I haven't found out,
>> but then again I've heard of sixel graphics for the first time last
>> Saturday…
>
> It can paint a particular format of picture on the window;
> there are few applications which create those pictures.
The netpbm package contains a converter which I used:
$ jpegtopnm foo.jpg | ppmquant 256 | ppmtosixel > foo.sixel
In mlterm, I can then simply view the image with "cat foo.sixel", but
this did not work in xterm.
> I've marked it experimental because it's still in development,
> and have done only limited testing (valgrind while cat'ing test-images).
Could you please send such a test image?
Cheers,
Sven
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