there's nothing convenient in your pityful setup. "won't disturb any window layout I had open already" fix your window manager, seems it's not able to manage shit.
that escape you're talking about is called execve and it works just fine. On 3/20/17, Aditya Goturu <adi...@sudoforlunch.org> wrote: > One could argue its a little more convenient. I personally like it > because it won't disturb any window layout I had open already. Here's a > thought: Rather than adding all the code to the terminal, a simple patch > could be made which detects a certain escape and will pipe everything > after that for X bytes into some image viewer. That could be another > separate program. And we don't need to use sixel, we just push the raw > farbfeld. > > On 03/20/2017 02:40 PM, hiro wrote: >> why would one want to view images in st, can't your shell start other >> graphical programs for that? is st becoming a new kind of web browser >> now? and why don't you open remote images using a remote file system >> instead of fucking around with remote shells and then trying to >> display them in a local terminal?! >> >> i mean even loonix can do this already. sshfs, qiv (or other proper >> graphical application of your choice). you even have a window manager >> in your same old project here, why not open some windows already? >> >> On 3/20/17, Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> wrote: >>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:57:20 +0300 >>> Alexander Krotov <ilab...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hey Alexander, >>> >>>> I have crafted a program to convert farbfeld images to sixels: >>>> https://github.com/ilabdsf/ff2sixel >>> this is very cool! Sixels are definitely an interesting concept to view >>> images over an SSH-connection. >>> >>>> Too bad st does not have a patch to display sixels, so I am going >>>> to use mlterm when I need to browse images. One simple way to >>>> implement it in st is to cut out sixel images, convert them back >>>> to farbfeld (with separate process) and pass result to lel. Not >>>> going to do it now, just an idea. >>> There were discussions on sixel support in st, and I think even some >>> code written for it. Can anybody give a status update on that one? >>> >>> With best regards >>> >>> Laslo >>> >>> -- >>> Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> >>> >>> > > >