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Just change the terminal, no the shell

Just change the terminal, no the shell

Posted Jun 26, 2008 15:07 UTC (Thu) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: Just change the terminal, no the shell by ballombe
Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)

> 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?


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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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