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by ReverseCold 3056 days ago
Nope, just an iTerm2 feature.

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

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Well there is HTerm which is available for Linux.

http://41j.com/hterm/

Not just graphics, iTerm2 has a whole bunch of other features that you can't find in one terminal on Linux.
Sure but I was responding specifically in the context of GP.

>> Terminals can display images?

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.
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.
xterm has a Tek 4014 mode. Here's an older comment with some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7776904
notty [1], although I believe it's dead currently.

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

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