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Why Sixel?

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  1. GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer made with Rust.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.

    #SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 42 social mentions

  2. Super fast, GPU and OpenGL based terminal emulator with tiling support
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.

    #SSH #Terminal Tools #Server Management 88 social mentions

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    A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Amongst newer 21st century OSS terminal emulators, there has been some work at revisiting better ways to encode raster graphics over telnet. In particular, you might want to look at George Nachman's iTerm2 and Kovid Goyal's Kitty, both of which support Sixel and their own newly-designed custom protocols for raster graphics, among other newfangled terminal features. Wezterm, another recent OSS terminal emulator, also support's Kitty's protocol.

    #Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 98 social mentions

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