[vardump]

Terminals can display images?

Wow.

I'd consider that pretty amazing and useful for displaying visual information like charts, flame graphs, latency plots etc.

Is this a (de-facto) standard? If not, it should be!

[ReverseCold]

Nope, just an iTerm2 feature.

Surprisingly there's nothing similar for Linux distributions - iTerm is for Mac only.

[bringtheaction]

Well there is HTerm which is available for Linux.

http://41j.com/hterm/

[ReverseCold]

Not just graphics, iTerm2 has a whole bunch of other features that you can't find in one terminal on Linux.

[bringtheaction]

Sure but I was responding specifically in the context of GP.

>> Terminals can display images?

[vbernat]

xterm supports some graphics through Sixel rendering. Never saw a real use of this. On X11, some text browsers, like w3m render images on xterm by painting directly in the xterm window.

[kqr]

This is a major annoyance for me, a former OS X user (stopped using it turned to shit in all other regards). I have had to work really hard to get text to render well in Linux terminal emulators -- iTerm2 had good typography out or the box, modulo the default typeface.

[lmz]

xterm has a Tek 4014 mode. Here's an older comment with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904

[afdsadf]

notty [1], although I believe it's dead currently.

[1] https://github.com/withoutboats/notty

[hota_mazi]

You know we live in strange times when Linux falls behind Mac OS on terminal support.

[geraldcombs]

DEC Sixel has been around since the '80s, although I'm not sure how many modern terminal applications support it.