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Posted Apr 17, 2018 19:45 UTC (Tue) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841)
In reply to: Other features by Ross
Parent article: A look at terminal emulators, part 1

sixel graphics in xterm's vt340 mode works really well, although I had to build from source to get full color support. The distro packages did not enable RGB color mode or even 256 indexed color mode. My interest was in using it for gnuplot output over a remote connection without tunneling a full X display pipe.

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Posted Apr 17, 2018 20:22 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link] (1 responses)

Glad it works well.

On package defaults, I was just replying about color matching logic and 256 vs. 24bit color support.

I don't know why --enable-direct-color isn't turned on in distributions. Virtually everyone is using a 16 or 24 bit true color display these days.

I think there are a ton of compile-time configuration knobs so it probably makes sense to review what distributions ship, but what they ship isn't always optimal.

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Posted Apr 18, 2018 7:26 UTC (Wed) by zwenna (guest, #64777) [Link]

Xterm has only supported direct-color since version 331 which was released less than four months ago.
And it is enabled by default, so distributions should pick it up when they upgrade to a newer xterm version.