taiidan

I like Kitty Graphics. I like graphics in the terminal for two reasons:

1. integration with MC (midnight commander) style directory browser to show previews of jpegs, pdfs, etc.
2. w3m web browser. I like being able to use that super-light weight webrowser when working/coding to keep me focused.

Reason (1.) works with Kitty. (2.) does not. (2.) is pretty esoteric so I think sixel will probably die out soon due to the user base?

• Ctrl + Alt + F[1-0] to access other TTYs which might still be responsive even if your desktop environment is unresponsive. Pull up top/htop and ID the problematic process to kill.

• Agree with using an oom killer.

• Do you need more swap? Can use swap file if expanding swap partition is problematic.

Thought out choice but disappointing nevertheless:

My stance for now is that Ghostty will not support sixels.

• https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2496