Comment by Maxious 9 days ago Terminals can show images https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/ 5 comments Maxious Reply amelius 9 days ago Ok, maybe I should have said "framebuffers" instead of images.Because that Kitty protocol seems limited in that interaction was not one of their goals. poly2it 9 days ago First example on the Kitty image protocol sent above looks pretty interactive:https://github.com/chase/awrit ux266478 9 days ago What's the point? If you want a framebuffer, ask the windowing system for one. Why go through a terminal emulator? amelius 8 days ago Because this one works through screen/tmux, and works over ssh without messing with DISPLAY variables and such.
amelius 9 days ago Ok, maybe I should have said "framebuffers" instead of images.Because that Kitty protocol seems limited in that interaction was not one of their goals. poly2it 9 days ago First example on the Kitty image protocol sent above looks pretty interactive:https://github.com/chase/awrit ux266478 9 days ago What's the point? If you want a framebuffer, ask the windowing system for one. Why go through a terminal emulator? amelius 8 days ago Because this one works through screen/tmux, and works over ssh without messing with DISPLAY variables and such.
poly2it 9 days ago First example on the Kitty image protocol sent above looks pretty interactive:https://github.com/chase/awrit
ux266478 9 days ago What's the point? If you want a framebuffer, ask the windowing system for one. Why go through a terminal emulator? amelius 8 days ago Because this one works through screen/tmux, and works over ssh without messing with DISPLAY variables and such.
amelius 8 days ago Because this one works through screen/tmux, and works over ssh without messing with DISPLAY variables and such.
Ok, maybe I should have said "framebuffers" instead of images.
Because that Kitty protocol seems limited in that interaction was not one of their goals.
First example on the Kitty image protocol sent above looks pretty interactive:
https://github.com/chase/awrit
What's the point? If you want a framebuffer, ask the windowing system for one. Why go through a terminal emulator?
Because this one works through screen/tmux, and works over ssh without messing with DISPLAY variables and such.