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Chafa appears to attempt to use some sort of auto detection for determining to use sixels. I'm unsure if this is now default behavior or not. But when setting PV_TYPE=text in a sixel compatible terminal it appears to attempt to use sixel. However, this then fails in things like fzf.

For PV_TYPE=text in stpvimg, explicitly set the chafa format to symbols to avoid this behavior.

Continue the discussion open by @Sqvid at #8 here

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Hello I'm currently using lf as my file manager under wayland. lf leads me to this project for image preview. I've installed kitty but I mainly use foot as my default terminal emulator. I also installed chafa and it works in foot. I've added config to lfrc

set previewer stpv
set cleaner stpvimgclr
&stpvimg --listen $id
cmd on-quit $stpvimg --end $id

But this only works in kitty. How can I preview image in foot?

Thank you for making this helpful script! I use it with lf and I have one problem: when I exit lf, ueberzug is not killed and files in /tmp are still there. I tested a little bit and it looks like lf doesn't kill processes started with & when it is exited.

Hey, I tried to set this program up to preview images with lf, but I only get the output of exiftools instead of the actual image.

So instead of a preview, I'd see:

ExifTool Version Number         : 12.16
File Name                       : waves.jpg
Directory                       : pic/backgrounds
File Size                       : 170 KiB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2021:01:22 21:01:46+01:00
File Access Date/Time           : 2021:03:07 22:49:19+01:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2021:01:22 21:06:14+01:00
File Permissions                : rw-r--r--
File Type                       : JPEG
File Type Extension             : jpg
MIME Type                       : image/jpeg
JFIF Version                    : 1.01
Resolution Unit                 : inches
X Resolution                    : 96
Y Resolution                    : 96
Image Width                     : 1920
Image Height                    : 1080
Encoding Process                : Progressive DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample                 : 8
Color Components                : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling            : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Image Size                      : 1920x1080
Megapixels                      : 2.1

Not sure what to do here.

The README indicates that it's possible to define custom handlers but it doesn't mention the proper way to add them. Is it just editing the source code?

terminal - kitty

Hello Naheel. Awesome job on this one - I just wanted to let you know I added it the Arch User Repository so that arch users may install it using the command paru -S stpv-git. Keep up the good work!
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stpv-git/

This piece of code kills a preview if it takes too long to run, right?

Today I noticed that if I select a ~1MB JSON file, the previewer in lf just stucks at Loading... for 5-10 seconds (it runs jq to generate JSON with syntax highlighting). I tried to investigate why the code above doesn't work in that case but failed.

Hi, first, thanks for your contribution, I was using your script with kitty but my computer is not the best and the slowness when opening kitty is noticeable, so I've been using foot terminal instead. I've tested ranger-sixels with foot terminal and it was very interesting, but due to the speed of the ranger itself when running on my machine I've been trying to migrate to lf.

I don't know how complex this is and I apologize if I'm talking nonsense or asking too much, but, if possible, I would like to have a lighter experience (using foot terminal view with cache directory) but with a little more quality (provided by sixels through chafa).

Could you implement such function please?

How does one use this?