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		lloeki 42 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Ch... I'm not particularly fond of displaying images on the terminal in ways that would resemble a GUI. That said, augmenting a shell-based workflow with tidbits such as this had me sold: https://xcancel.com/thingskatedid/status/1316074032379248640... https://xcancel.com/thingskatedid/status/1316075850580652032... To achieve that, either Sixel or Kitty protocol is fine. IIRC Sixel works over SSH without any fuss, dunno about Kitty.

cb321 42 days ago [–]

I can confirm that I just do it over ssh fine all the time -- gnuplot, img2sixel as an "image-cat", etc. (`st` with patches to add sixel support as discussed in various places in these comments.)

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