What is the difference between .xwd and .sixel?
- Extension
- .xwd
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- X Window System
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Description
- The XWD (X Windows Dump) image file format is a native graphic format associated with the X Window System, which is a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in UNIX and Linux environments. An XWD file is essentially a dump or snapshot of what is being displayed on a screen or part of it at a given moment. It stores image data in an uncompressed form, including the header information that contains details about the image's size, color, and format.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-xwindowdump
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.xwd
- Wikipedia
- .xwd on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia