Posts categorized in ‘terminals’ (3)

I’ve been playing with terminal emulators again for a while. More to write up at some point, but here a quick note on some customisations for displaying images in the terminal…. There are a couple of terminal emulators which allow for display of arbitrary images in the terminal (I mean, jpegs and pngs and the like, not (just) sixel), notably Kitty and WezTerm. WezTerm with iTerm2 compatible image protocol support, and built-in imgcat command, alongside of (experimental but seemingly working) support for Kitty’s image display protocol (enable this in WezTerm by adding to your wezterm.

In a continuing series of, er, terminal-related posts, a look at some features of a subset of terminal emulators on Linux. I mainly use vterm inside of Emacs, usually via Equake, but sometimes I do want to spawn a terminal outside of Emacs, and so I’ve been curious about the properties of different terminals, including the ability to be used across a wide range of hardware. A few weeks ago [as of 28 June 2022], I came across Zutty, which describes itself as:

Continued work on fooling Emacs into behaving like a drop-down console (i.e. Equake), set me to thinking about the development of Quake-style drop-down terminals. The frequent label “Quake-style” does seem to suggest at least part of the origin in the computer game Quake (1996), or at least that the drop-down console in Quake was the most prominent/remembered example of this sort of UI.[0] On Linux/Unix, a number of terminal emulators have been designed with Quake-style drop-down interaction, and other platforms now seem to have these as well.