On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:29:00 CST, Markus Wichmann wrote: > Had to research what this is supposed to do: XTerm replies to it with > the screen size. Except the docs explicitly warn you that it is not > necessarily the screen size.
More accurately, it responds with the screen geometry available for sixel graphics. Generally, terminals which don't support sixels will not respond to this query. I think technically terminals could respond with a 0,0 size available for sixels to suggest they aren't supported. However, I have not found any terminal which responds that doesn't support sixels. So for my use case the actual response doesn't matter, just the fact that something was returned. I wouldn't expect st to respond since it does not support sixel graphics. Terminals can also advertise support through the primary device attribute query as well, but not all do. > I wonder why a TUI application needs to know the screen size in pixels. This is useful for graphic sizing. -- Tim
