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On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:45 +0100, Matthias Kramm wrote: |
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> Hi All, |
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> now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11 |
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> console which can display images intermingled in the normal |
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> text flow. |
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> The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for: |
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> http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png |
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> . |
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> That is, I'm looking for a terminal emulator where I can insert special |
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> color graphic escape sequences into the serial stream, which are then |
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> displayed by the x11 console as graphics at the current text |
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> position. |
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> I'd be grateful for any hints about whether something like this already |
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> exists somewhere, or ideas on how to implement it (maybe using some |
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> console with plugin capabilities, or something like this). |
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Ok so a long time ago there were these things called (text) terminals |
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that were inherently text-based. Then along came these whiz-bang |
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things called X terminals which were like the other terminals but could |
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display graphics. They did make some GUI software/libraries for these X |
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things, but to keep compatibility with the old text-based stuff they |
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created software called "terminal emulators". |
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Hope this helps. |
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-a |
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