MapSCII – The Whole World in Your Console
I've recently been looking into terminals that can show images properly - and it's looking more widely supported and maturing than I thought.
Is there anyone else also looking into the same thing?<p>It's promising but my main problem is that the multiplexers tmux and screen don't really support the various protocols.<p>There are some terminals that support images using various protocols:<p>- iTerm2 (Macos) - bespoke protocol<p>- Kitty - bespoke protocol<p>- Mlterm - Sixel and iTerm2 protocol<p>- Wezterm - iTerm2 protcol (and potentially Sixel too)<p>- Xterm - Sixel (but not built with it in your distro, maybe)<p>- Gnome-terminal/libvte terminals - Sixel - not released yet/not available to me, so unconfirmed<p>Using this support one can for example configure IPython to render images in the terminal inline using its mime-type hooks.<p>It would be great if we could slowly move terminals forward with this (even if I understand the technology is quite cumbersome to work with). Imagine having neovim, IPython or jupyter notebooks etc all available with image support in a multiplexed terminal.