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Chafa: Terminal Graphics for the 21st Century

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3 days agoby birdculture

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I use chafa extensively, and it really is the best tool for terminal graphics in my opinion.

I use it as a fallback option for terminals without proper terminal graphics support in my TUI Jupyter client, euporie.

There are Python bindings available: https://github.com/GuardKenzie/chafa.py

3 days agoby joouha

I learned about Chafa when I found a video editor that runs in the command line with keyboard control - vic - it just lets you insert split markers and when you exit the video is sliced up into the portions. I really like the low-fi nature of scrobbling through the video, it has low brain overhead.

https://github.com/wong-justin/vic

3 days agoby jazzyjackson

I'm currently using this for a teams/zoom/meet replacement for people who work in the terminal. Might even make it to a Show HN some day.

2 days agoby nickdothutton

Why can't we have proper graphics on terminal? years ago I remember being able to use graphics.h to draw on MS-DOS terminal and print letters on it (text mode).

3 days agoby atulvi

I've been trying for like three hours to get this to show in-line images with w3m. Anyone got a config with that working?

2 days agoby cherrycreek00

Previously in 2022 (97 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32797681

2 days agoby gnabgib

I threw together a utility for this with just the half character in 2018, I don't even remember why.

https://rubygems.org/gems/barf

The name does imply the image quality, fyi.

My solution is also multithreaded, in Ruby. :D

3 days agoby duffyjp

If you want some hilarious insanity: t try explaining ascii/terminal rendering to a text llm and see how it struggles

3 days agoby carterschonwald

qué chafa!! all jokes aside, this provides infinite posibilities for my obsession with text-based apps/CLI.

3 days agoby n0um3n4

Discovered this recently when I wanted to set my perfect retro feeling company logo onto the MOTD of some hardware so we'd have it on the serial port.

3 days agoby XorNot

I use chafa in term.everything[0], and I have nothing but good things to say about it! hpjansson is a great maintainer too, if anything even seems like it's wrong with chafa he will chime in with a fix or a suggestion[1] (I'm not the only one he does this with too [2][3]). I would definitely recommend this lib for anyone doing terminal graphics.

[0]https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything

[1]https://github.com/mmulet/term.everything/issues/5

[2]https://lobste.rs/s/qh6lil/chafa_terminal_graphics_for_21st_...

[3]https://github.com/wong-justin/vic/issues/1#issue-2586904982

2 days agoby mmulet