Feature Request: sixel graphics mode

[BrainDamage]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel is a raster protocol format part of VT200 and VT300 serial terminals
it recently started gaining traction on command line tools to output images directly to the terminal because it works trought ssh, works reasonably well, etc
for an implementation detail to copy the encoder/decoder, one can look at https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel , the url documents also a series of terminals and programs that support the standard
I realize it's a low priority feature, but it'd allow rather nice semi graphical workflow under termux's terminal, currently it's already possible to view sixel graphics from launching a ssh daemon and connecting externally with a sixel capable terminal emulator

[EralpCelebi]

İs there any development ? I would really like to use this thing.

This should be good. But can you provide an example of software that supports sixel graphics ? I know a termplay program (https://github.com/jD91mZM2/termplay) that can play image/video on terminal but what else ?

[its-pointless]

Gnuplot does
I think w3m can or one textmode brower can display sixel images

[beiriannydd]

https://devhub.io/repos/saitoha-libsixel says it better than I can. I would really appreciate this feature.

[petrmachcz]

Is it supported now?

[Momiro]

Want.

[hackerb9]

I'm the author of lsix which is like ls but shows images in the terminal using SIXEL. I have received a request for Termux support. I believe that my program should work fine with Termux once it supports SIXEL graphics.

Neofetch supports sixel, instead of distro art, you can use an image.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Image-Backends#sixel

[cogburnd02]

I would love for this to be implemented.

Perhaps some code can be ported over from yaft-android?? (MIT licensed)

https://github.com/uobikiemukot/yaft-android

[Efreak]

I'm quite interested in using this with neofetch, lsix. This could also be used for previewing formatted documents directly in the terminal.

[cogburnd02]

@Efreak RIGHT? A version of fbgs (https://github.com/kraxel/fbida/blob/master/fbgs) modified to use img2sixel instead of fbi would be great for viewing ps and pdf files such as those produced by groff or TeX and wa (https://developer.run/37) could make use of img2sixel to show results from Wolfram Alpha right in the command line!