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Does this or any of the mentioned alternatives work over ssh ?


There is no real reason that any of them would not, SSH not involving decoding and then reëncoding terminal control sequences. The more relevant concerns would be whether they worked with tmux, screen, and mosh, which do involve that; and whether the terminal emulator on the local end of one's SSH connection supports 256x256x256 RGB colour control sequences.

That said, one of the issues on timg's issues list deals in the sheer amount of superfluous data that are generated and that that thus have to be transmitted across an SSH connection or a serial device. There is no optimization of the colour change control sequences at all. pixterm similarly does zero optimization, but no-one has pointed that out yet.

* https://github.com/hzeller/timg/issues/13

pxl, mentioned elsewhere on this page, does optimize colour control sequences and indeed uses an ncurses-style double-buffer mechanism to optimize re-drawing.


ssh doesn't really care about your terminals capabilities. (Yes.)




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