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So sixel... (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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How does it work?? I have been trying google-fu for probably two hours trying to figure out how exactly you even install sixel. I found libsixel but it seems unmaintained. I just wanna try out images in my terminal. lol. Does anyone have any experience using sixel on linux and is it worth the effort to even setup?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://www.arewesixelyet.com/ (ddg-foo for probably 10 seconds)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See I found that but I still could not figure out the install process. I finally figured that libsixel was the newest one but it still seems unmaintained. I ended up compiling it from source as it was not in the fedora repos. At this point I am more confused about the correct version of sixel to use. Libsixel is the only one I can really find

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the terminals which support sixel doesn't use libsixel at all, instead they've developed their own implementation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

See I have foot and it says it supports sixel but no sixel commands were working until I got libsixel installed