sixelterm 0.0.10

Display JPEG/PNG image with cat command, on some terminals support SIXEL (RLogin/mlterm/tanasinn). Inspired by GateOne.

Install

via github

$ git clone https://github.com/saitoha/sixelterm.git
$ cd sixelterm
$ python setup.py install

or via pip

$ pip install sixelterm

Usage

$ sixelterm
$ cat test.jpg

[imagefile] is expected to be a PNG/JPEG formatted image file.

• Options:

  -h, --help                  show this help message and exit
  --version                   show version

Dependency

• PySixel https://github.com/saitoha/PySixel

• PySixel depends on Python Imaging Library (PIL) http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

• TFF - Terminal Filter Framework https://github.com/saitoha/tff

Reference

• Gate One, Liftoff Software http://liftoffsoftware.com/Products/GateOne

• Chris_F_Chiesa, 1990 : All About SIXELs ftp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/all_about_sixels.txt

• Netpbm http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/

  It includes ppmtosixel command http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/ppmtosixel.html

• vt100.net http://vt100.net/