> On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 03:43:31PM -0400, fo...@dnmx.org wrote: > > I love such tools.. Is it possible to make something console-based? > > Most terminal emulators (I think?) already have some option to > dump the screen content into some image format. If not, I don't > think it'd be difficult feature to add to the terminal - > especially for simple image formats like ppm or farbfeld. > > And it makes more sense for it to be done by the terminal > emulator, since it /already/ has parsed all the escape codes and > rendered a pixmap - instead of doing it via an external tool > which would need to duplicate all that work. > > - NRK >
Sure that's cool, but ideally the end-goal would be a TTY, without X11/Wayland. In other words: throwing away as much tools/code as possible. Lowerind attack surface, feeling more minimalist and as such less filthy, it's like cleaning a room.