Thomas Axmann

I, too, was able to try it out now. I had to rebuild gnuplot from source bc the sixel term wasn't installed (was easy enough) and of course i had to install yaft/yaftx from source (their README.md is pretty instructive). To make everything work i had to set the background color in the sixel terminal bc it seemingly took the same color as my graph had. For that i had to set object rectangle from screen 0,0 to screen 1,1 fs solid fc rgb 0xffffff behind bc sixel doesn't support set term sixel ***background...

Thanks for the good alternative this is a big help. To answer the questions: I basically use my computer for two things: work: terminal-emulator (terminator because of the cool terminal multiplexing feature), evince and gpicview for looking at plots (or the x11 terminal), evince and firefox for looking at docs. off-duty: firefox for streaming, vlc for music, sometimes games. I don't see a plus in having X running in the work env, because all of those things could be run from a linux console (given...

Sorry for the bad formatting. There should have been lists but it all went itallic.

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