Re: [gentoo-user] Console with color graphics capabilities?

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 15:45 +0100, Matthias Kramm wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> now this is a bit off topic, but I'm looking for an X11
> console which can display images intermingled in the normal
> text flow.
>
> The following mockup gives a rough idea of what I'm looking for:
> http://www.quiss.org/files/gfxterminal.png
> .
>
> That is, I'm looking for a terminal emulator where I can insert special
> color graphic escape sequences into the serial stream, which are then
> displayed by the x11 console as graphics at the current text
> position.
>
> I'd be grateful for any hints about whether something like this already
> exists somewhere, or ideas on how to implement it (maybe using some
> console with plugin capabilities, or something like this).

Ok so a long time ago there were these things called (text) terminals that were inherently text-based. Then along came these whiz-bang things called X terminals which were like the other terminals but could display graphics. They did make some GUI software/libraries for these X things, but to keep compatibility with the old text-based stuff they created software called "terminal emulators".

Hope this helps.

-a

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