# Plots in the terminal (with sixel)

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-in-the-terminal-with-sixel/22503>\
**Category:** Visualization\
**Tags:** plotting, repl\
**Created:** [March 29, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-in-the-terminal-with-sixel/22503 "2019-03-29T14:58:45Z")\
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1. `using GR; inline("item", false)` allows scroll back
2. `inline("") `switches back to GUI
3. NYI

For `Plots`, launching of `gksqt` might be suppressed setting `GKSwstype=nul` before starting Julia.

`GKSTerm.app` for macOS is still there:

```julia
GKSwstype=quartz julia ...

```

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