I'm an old DEC ReGIS and Sixel developer left over from the 80's & 90's, who enjoyed watching this video and wanted to leave you with some additional information that might explain why you are noticing issues with your terminal resolution. In 1987, the DEC VT340 4-bit color graphics terminal was released for displaying 16-color images. * DECterm was xTerm for DEC's X-Windows System that emulated the VT340. * DEC invested a lot of time and resources into the development of X and the release of X11. * The various xTerm emulators are not 100% compatible with DECterm or properly emulate DEC's VT100 capabilities. * We used Sixel Graphics for customizing our computer prompts and as Sprites that could move around the screen.
In my first programming job in 1983 I used a VT100 terminal which was supposed to support sixel graphics. I couldn't get it to work so I logged the problem with DEC. They eventually got back to me and said that the ROM was buggy and if I escalated the problem they would have to replace the ROM in every VT100 terminal 'worldwide' So they bought me off with some extra RAM for the VT100 terminal which allowed me to display 24x132 characters rather than the usual 24x80. I've always been a power user ;-)
would love to see an image protocol for Linux/Unix terminals widely (universally) adopted today - lots of us spend much time these days connecting to headless servers via ssh/tty terminal interaction. Being able to have the server-side spice up displayed output with image data would be very cool indeed. And text mode browsers (lynx/gopher/gemini) of various sorts would be much improved in utility. It would pave the way for building out a total full screen text mode universe of computer desktop UI interaction - that and universal support of pointing devices such as the mouse.
Today I found out that wsltty (terminal emulator for WSL in windows)does support sixels. And the pictures look amazing ! It also has true-color support so it also helps sell the illusion
I'm an old DEC ReGIS and Sixel developer left over from the 80's & 90's, who enjoyed watching this video and wanted to leave you with some additional information that might explain why you are noticing issues with your terminal resolution.
In 1987, the DEC VT340 4-bit color graphics terminal was released for displaying 16-color images.
* DECterm was xTerm for DEC's X-Windows System that emulated the VT340.
* DEC invested a lot of time and resources into the development of X and the release of X11.
* The various xTerm emulators are not 100% compatible with DECterm or properly emulate DEC's VT100 capabilities.
* We used Sixel Graphics for customizing our computer prompts and as Sprites that could move around the screen.
In my first programming job in 1983 I used a VT100 terminal which was supposed to support sixel graphics. I couldn't get it to work so I logged the problem with DEC. They eventually got back to me and said that the ROM was buggy and if I escalated the problem they would have to replace the ROM in every VT100 terminal 'worldwide' So they bought me off with some extra RAM for the VT100 terminal which allowed me to display 24x132 characters rather than the usual 24x80. I've always been a power user ;-)
would love to see an image protocol for Linux/Unix terminals widely (universally) adopted today - lots of us spend much time these days connecting to headless servers via ssh/tty terminal interaction. Being able to have the server-side spice up displayed output with image data would be very cool indeed. And text mode browsers (lynx/gopher/gemini) of various sorts would be much improved in utility. It would pave the way for building out a total full screen text mode universe of computer desktop UI interaction - that and universal support of pointing devices such as the mouse.
Today I found out that wsltty (terminal emulator for WSL in windows)does support sixels. And the pictures look amazing ! It also has true-color support so it also helps sell the illusion
wow
oh god , just use ueberzurg in X11 xD
_in_ the terminal not _on_ the terminal!