I made an incredible discovery: xterm, the venerable...

I made an incredible discovery: xterm, the venerable terminal emulator, can make SVG screen dumps! (And XHTML.) 🤯

(From the menu on control-left-click. How come I never noticed before?)

Like 28 Nov 2023 at 13:39 | Open on toot.aquilenet.fr

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@civodul demonstrate pls? I can't see it.

28 Nov 2023 at 14:20 | Open on fosstodon.org

@joxn For some reason the Mastodon instance I’m using rejects SVGs:

(error http 422) Unprocessable entity: file or file type is unsupported or invalid

Is that expected, @Aquilenet?

28 Nov 2023 at 15:34 | Open on toot.aquilenet.fr

Olivier

@civodul wow! So the text is rendered as vectorial?

28 Nov 2023 at 14:24 | Open on framapiaf.org

@tyldurd Yup, with the right colors and everything!

28 Nov 2023 at 15:32 | Open on toot.aquilenet.fr

Olivier

28 Nov 2023 at 16:06 | Open on framapiaf.org

Khleedril

@civodul I also made a discovery: xterm is still a thing.

28 Nov 2023 at 15:02 | Open on cyberplace.social