I use similar scripts from google's hterm project; to the extent that hterm is "iterm2 compatible" maybe they will work for you. I adapted them to support screen for the terminal graphics device in R. IIRC the scripts have a tweak to work with screen's buffer size for escaped data.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/apps/libapps/+/master/hterm/etc/ On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 11:25 PM Pier Giuseppe Fogli < piergiuseppe.fo...@cmcc.it> wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to be able to use the imgcat shell script from inside GNU screen > in order to display images from remote hosts. > imgcat (https://iterm2.com/utilities/imgcat) is part of a collection of > shell scripts that make use of iTerm2 image display capabilities, > here the related documentation: > https://iterm2.com/documentation-images.html > > It works outside GNU screen. From inside it generate a stream of > base 64 encoded text on the terminal. > I guess the problem here is to escape this stream from GNU screen > interpretation in some way, and let it be interpreted by the terminal > emulator. > According to the imgcat script it should be handled by this function: > > # tmux requires unrecognized OSC sequences to be wrapped with DCS tmux; > # <sequence> ST, and for all ESCs in <sequence> to be replaced with ESC > ESC. It > # only accepts ESC backslash for ST. We use TERM instead of TMUX because > TERM > # gets passed through ssh. > function print_osc() { > if [[ $TERM == screen* || $TERM == tmux* ]]; then > printf "\033Ptmux;\033\033]" > else > printf "\033]" > fi > } > > but it doesn't and I can't figure out how to fix it. > Any idea? > > Thanks in advance, > PGF >
