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Just change the terminal, no the shellJust change the terminal, no the shellPosted Jun 25, 2008 12:53 UTC (Wed) by endecotp (guest, #36428)Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)
I have occasionally wondered about how the classic "shell + terminal" could be improved. My complaints are few, but when I'm using things like Imagemagick's convert and mogrify tools and wonder whether a more "multimedia" terminal could be useful (with no changes to the shell). Specifically, if I "cat foo.jpeg", wouldn't it be great if the image were displayed inline in the terminal, like "cat foo.txt" would have been? Then I could see it in my scrollback history. At present I have to see foo.jpeg in another window which I have to close at some point, and isn't tied to the place in my history where I launched it. Similarly, a GUI directory browser can show me thumbnails of the images but ls can't. Why not let ls (or an ls-like program) output a mixture of text and graphics to the terminal window and see image thumbnails there? Maybe this has already been done. It's something that I think about from time to time but it has never yet reached the top of my to-do list.
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Just change the terminal, no the shell Posted Jun 25, 2008 17:07 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] Actually you can do that in the Linux framebuffer.
Just change the terminal, no the shell Posted Jun 26, 2008 10:23 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Yeah, but unless you can make it work in an X terminal emulator too it's not going to be terribly widely used. (I don't use fb even though non-fb is almost unreadable on my LCD screen --- it gets the width of the screen radically wrong --- simply because, AIUI, fbdev is pretty much incompatible with accelerated X, and I care much more about accelerated X than I do about the tiny proportion of the time I'm using the console.)
Just change the terminal, no the shell Posted Jun 26, 2008 15:07 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link] > Actually you can do that in the Linux framebuffer. Hmm, I just tried "cat foo.jpeg" and got the garbage characters that I was expecting. Is there something that I have to enable?
Just change the terminal, no the shell Posted Jun 27, 2008 12:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] It is *possible* to write code such that that works in the Linux framebuffer (compared to, say, xterm: w3m can display images in that but there's no way it'll work with scrollback or anything because w3m is just blatting images into the same X window: xterm doesn't know anything about it).
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