Sixel support?

[soccermitchy]

• I am on the latest Hyper.app version
• I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

• OS version and name: Ubuntu 16.04
• Hyper.app version: 1.4.8 (Stable)
• Link of a Gist with the contents of your .hyper.js: https://gist.github.com/soccermitchy/81b388f081798a304324e34bd6b18577
• Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere): N/A
• The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Is Vanilla

Issue

I noticed when trying out Hyper that it doesn't support sixel... I've been looking for a terminal that supports it, yet from what I can see the only two that I can find that support it are mlterm (which has issues with copy/paste on Ubuntu) and xterm (which has a similar issue), and both of which don't support things like tabs like Hyper does. The main thing keeping me from using Hyper instead of something like gnome-terminal is support for sixel graphics, because other than that I would get about equal use out of both. What I get when I try to run a test sixel program is just the raw sixel data (I tried the mandel5 [labeled mandel4] example from the libsixel repository) instead of getting a rendered sixel image, where the expected behavior is, well, me getting an image rendered.

[albinekb]

Cool! You should open an issue over at https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js/ (the rendering library hyper uses since 2.0), which would need to implement support (presumably by a plugin since not everyone needs this)

[soccermitchy]

Forgot to make an issue over there, but I just found this issue asking for something similar, leading to sixel being brought up, so I'd say that's close enough.

[AutumnMeowMeow]

@Stanzilla @albinekb

FYI a high performance sixel implementation addon for xterm.js is available here: https://github.com/jerch/xterm-addon-image

(It's good enough to play DOOM. ;))

[jessebot]

Hi Hyper team, I know this is an old issue, but how do you use an xterm.js add on with hyper?

I would like to use sixel with hyper.

Thanks for you help! :)