# Makie and X11 forwarding

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-and-x11-forwarding/91975>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** makie, x11\
**Created:** [December 21, 2022, 8:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-and-x11-forwarding/91975 "2022-12-21T20:52:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![wsshin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/wsshin/32/360_2.png) [@wsshin](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wsshin)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/makie-and-x11-forwarding/91975/8 "2023-02-27T21:46:33Z")

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Thanks @t-bltg! [SixelTerm.jl](https://github.com/eschnett/SixelTerm.jl) built using Sixels.jl works perfectly for me. It displays CairoMakie figures in the terminal directly. Because X11 forwarding was not working properly for GLMakie, I had to rely on UnicodePlots.jl to display the results calculated on a remote Linux cluster, but now I can use CairoMakie.jl and SixelTerm.jl.

Here is a screen capture showing how it works:

 ![Screenshot 2023-02-27 at 16.45.36](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/6/0/60b268c222683600a4195b88d6634d4b4d3097f1.png)

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