Windows Console now supports Sixel

[NickAcPT]

It seems that Sixel support in the Windows Terminal is being worked on, and a PR for Sixel support in conhost has been merged (PR microsoft/terminal#17421).

[j4james]

Just to be clear, that PR adds Sixel support to conhost (that's the old Windows console). It's not available in Windows Terminal yet.

[NickAcPT]

Whoops, my bad! In that case however, does the Windows Console section need updating then?

EDIT: I went ahead and updated the title + initial post to reflect the actual changes I mentioned.

[j4james]

I'm not sure what exactly the criteria are for claiming sixel support on this site. Right now we've got a PR committed, and technically anyone could download the nightly build and use it if they really wanted to, but it'll be some time before it makes its way into the inbox Windows console which most users have access to. So for now you may want to hold off on claiming anything, or at least include a massive disclaimer clarifying that it's not generally available (and it's possible it might never be).

[j4james]

FYI, with PRs microsoft/terminal/#17581 and microsoft/terminal/#17510 having been merged now, we've got Sixel support in Windows Terminal too. As with conhost, it's still only accessible in the nightly build, but my understanding is that they are planning for a preview release around the end of the month.

[Kreijstal]

the nightly release is there, so we wait till stable releasse

[codr1]

I have it working in Windows Terminal Preview.

[TMA-2]

Yes, as of Windows Terminal Preview 1.22, sixel support is now included.

[AriESQ]

1.22 is still pre-release, the current release branch is 1.21.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases

Searching through the Changelog I don't believe the sixel changes landed in the 1.21 branch.

[sitiom]

Now on stable as of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.22.10352.0

[CompeyDev]

Now what I'm a bit puzzled about is how on WSL querying capabilities seems to return no sixel support, however on native shells, it does return as supported. Odd...

[j4james]

@CompeyDev How are you querying the terminal capabilities? Sixel support can be detected with a device attributes report. To confirm that's working, you can execute the following in a WSL shell:

printf "\e[c"; read

And you should see something like this:

^[[?61;4;6;7;14;21;22;23;24;28;32;42c

The 4 in that response indicates that the terminal has support for Sixel.

[CompeyDev]

Yes, directly reading a sixel image from a file, or querying the capabilities tells me what sixel is supported and functional. However, if I were to use any programs which try to render images to the stdout using sixel, they all do nothing or fallback to other rendering methods.