On 6/21/21 9:33 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
I have to admit, I’m watching this with interest. Hopefully I can see about getting this up and running one of these days.
I too keep an eye out for things XTerm / Sixel (raster?) / ReGIS (vector) related. I learned about Sixel first, became quite interested, and then about ReGIS.
I've since learned about GDM (?term?) graphics on 3279 (?model?) on mainframes. I've not yet managed to reproduce this myself, but I've seen pictures.
I hope this goes without needing to be said, but for people reading this archive in the future, we're talking about the terminal actually supporting and displaying graphics, not some pseudo overlay / alpha background that some more mainstream terminal emulators use.
I find myself wondering what it would take to build this on a Mac, the current Mac xterm *SUCKS*!!! On the Mac, I can’t seem to use the custom DEC keybindings.
XTerm on macOS? Please tell me more. I'm currently using iTerm2 as it's considerably better than Terminal from Apple. Though, it does seem as if iTerm2 supports Sixel. I think I heard some noise about ReGIS support in future versions. (I think it was ReGIS. Maybe it was that Sixel was coming when I last read about it.)
Actually does DECterm support either Sixel and ReGIS? I’m dead on my feet, so won’t power up my VAXstation 4000/90 and look.
I'm not up on DEC software. I think that there is a full DEC terminal emulator that some versions of may support graphics, though I don't know what type. I think there was also an XTerm profile / nickname that included DEC. (Or am conflating AIXterm?)
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
