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		sand500 on Aug 7, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Sclack: The best CLI client for Slack, because eve... How hard would it to be to get images to be shown in the CLI? Or is that not possible with whatever stock terminal software?

aumerle on Aug 8, 2018 | [–]

Terminal graphics protocol: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html

nhumrich on Aug 8, 2018 | | [–]

Pretty much impossible. There are some programs that can kind of do some images, but certainly not gifs

solidr53 on Aug 8, 2018 | | [–]

imgcat can do gif in iTerm

nhumrich on Aug 8, 2018 | | | [–]

Yes, but only iterm

jamesgeck0 on Aug 7, 2018 | | [–]

iTerm can display images, but I don't think there's a universal way to do it. https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

kalleboo on Aug 8, 2018 | [–]

xterm supports graphics https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2114347/raster-graphics-...

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