Warp Terminal: Kitty Graphics Protocol for Album Art Not Auto-Detecting

[fezzik-the-giant]

Describe the bug
When using Warp Terminal, spotify-player isn't detecting terminal graphics capabilities and falling back to block art.

To Reproduce

1. Install and run Warp Terminal.
2. echo $TERM # note output is xterm-256color
3. Install spotify-player with --features image
4. Setup ~/.config/spotify-player/app.toml with:

[image]
enable_cover_image_cache = true
cover_img_width = 40
cover_img_length= 20

[image.term_backgrounds]
"WarpTerminal" = 1.0

5. Run spotify-player; note album art is distorted blocks
6. Quit spotify-player and rerun as TERM=xterm-kitty spotify_player; note album art is clean

Expected behaviour
Expect spotify-player to detect graphics mode and render album art non-distorted.

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Environment

• OS: MacOS 15.5 (24F74)
• Application version: 0.20.5
• Application features: cargo build --release --features image

Additional context

[aome510]

That is expected and not really a bug from spotify_player side. You can find the logic to detect kitty support in the viuer library: https://github.com/atanunq/viuer/blob/a9921f5d3d1ef44b59cdd2a5f16d5f480eb1d731/src/printer/kitty.rs#L58-L69

[j4james]

FYI, someone is currently working on a PR for viuer which detects the kitty protocol more reliably, so it doesn't have to rely on a hardcoded lists of TERM values (see atanunq/viuer#79). In theory that should get Warp Terminal to work correctly.

[aome510]

FYI, someone is currently working on a PR for viuer which detects the kitty protocol more reliably, so it doesn't have to rely on a hardcoded lists of TERM values (see atanunq/viuer#79). In theory that should get Warp Terminal to work correctly.

Gotcha, thanks for the heads up. I'll keep an eye out for any updates from the library