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> I see that @dankamongmen is a bit ahead of me here: [saitoha/libsixel#149](https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/149) > Also, the transparency issue affects overlapping sixel images as well. was just coming here to post...

the recent work supporting transparency with `P2=1` is great--thank you so much, @ayosec! i've tested tonight's most recent extensively with my sixel suite, and it is now passing the majority...

> Incidentally, @dankamongmen, how does [ayosec#4](https://github.com/ayosec/alacritty/pull/4) fare in your tests? i don't yet have any sprixel-on-sprixel tests -- sounds like it's time to add them! i've definitely seen sprixel-atop-sprixel work...

> > with your branch, i end up with all four cells of the sixel, and the glyph is nowhere to be found. > > That’s actually going to be...

> Absolutely, though this doesn’t appear to work in Kitty. Clearing the screen clears sixels, but not clearing from the current line down. correct, the only way to clear a...

> I have newsboat viewing articles with w3m (patched to output SIXEL data), and all is nearly superb; except after a largish window of time, all SIXEL pictures show in...

@ayosec, I've noticed something odd about your implementation of Sixel, and would like to know whether it's intentional. Complete information is available at https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/issues/2142. There's (as far as I know)...

> I agree that the ability to do more complex compositions is desirable, but it is hard to support it without a performance regression. This is something that I definitely...

> with the advent of Notcurses, mixed bitmaps and text have suddenly become a real possibility within an established TUI framework. thus a case that was less common perhaps due...

> I doubt ConPTY is the issue. You can launch the terminal with `-o debug.log_level=trace` to see if the Sixel data is transmitted to Alacritty. In the (very verbose) output...