#647 sixel terminal driver

[Erik Olofsen]

Recent XTerm versions are capable of displaying Sixel graphics, a format supported by terminals and printers from DEC. These are displayed when a stream of Sixel characters are sent to the screen e.g. using "cat" under Unix (or "TYPE" under VMS using the DECWindows terminal).

The attached patch adds code to the "tek.trm" driver so that Sixel character streams may be created and images appear between Gnuplot command line prompts (so not in a separate window).

Gnuplot has to be compiled/configured with the "--with-bitmap-terminals" option.

XTerm has to be compiled/configured with "--enable-sixel-graphics", and started with "-ti 340" on the command line to specify a Sixel capable terminal. Furthermore, the menu option "sixelScrolling" should be checked; foreground black and background white.

[Ethan Merritt]

Added to CVS for 4.6 and 4.7
Thanks!

[Ethan Merritt]

Added to CVS for 4.6 and 4.7
Thanks!

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Erik Olofsen olofsen@users.sf.net wrote:

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[patches:#647] sixel terminal driver

Status: open
Created: Tue Nov 19, 2013 07:24 PM UTC by Erik Olofsen
Last Updated: Tue Nov 19, 2013 07:24 PM UTC
Owner: nobody

Recent XTerm versions are capable of displaying Sixel graphics, a format
supported by terminals and printers from DEC. These are displayed when a
stream of Sixel characters are sent to the screen e.g. using "cat" under
Unix (or "TYPE" under VMS using the DECWindows terminal).

The attached patch adds code to the "tek.trm" driver so that Sixel
character streams may be created and images appear between Gnuplot command
line prompts (so not in a separate window).

Gnuplot has to be compiled/configured with the "--with-bitmap-terminals"
option.

XTerm has to be compiled/configured with "--enable-sixel-graphics", and
started with "-ti 340" on the command line to specify a Sixel capable
terminal. Furthermore, the menu option "sixelScrolling" should be checked;
foreground black and background white.

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