Hacker News Reader

Sixel is, woefully, not very well supported by terminal emulators :/ I really wish it were.

There's also the Kitty graphics API but I've never actually seen it work on any machines I've used Kitty, Wezterm, etc. that supposedly support it.

View on HN

Yeah, in an effort to spur adoption, I built (shameless plug) https://www.arewesixelyet.com/. What’s interesting is that if VTE gets support, a lot of other terminals will, since they depend on it.

mlterm supports sixels — https://github.com/arakiken/mlterm

Thanks! Added it: https://github.com/smasher164/arewesixelyet/commit/4e8f68e98....

Ooh thanks! I love this.

See https://github.com/dolmen-go/kittyimg

Reply on news.ycombinator.com