KDE Konsole supports images (chafa works)

[giorgiga]

This is to let you know that KDE Konsole supports the terminal image protocol (in fact, it works with chafa). IDK since when.

[emk2203]

KDE Konsole supports the kitty protocol as well. Unfortunately, without chafa, viu renders the unicode block in Konsole instead of the graphics.

[rhodes-b]

KDE Konsole supports the kitty protocol as well. Unfortunately, without chafa, viu renders the unicode block in Konsole instead of the graphics.

if you set TERM=xterm-kitty viu ...image it should work at least that does in ghostty, viu seems to do terminal name matching instead of querying for support as listed here, I also didnt see a way to pass it as a command line argument like fastfetch

not sure if a config file lets you do it properly I didnt wanna look into that

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#querying-support-and-available-transmission-mediums

[metal3d]

Actually, it works on many terminal emulators. Ghostty works perfectly too (without the need of chafa and without the need to change TERM env variable). Maybe the README should indicate it.

[rhodes-b]

Actually, it works on many terminal emulators. Ghostty works perfectly too (without the need of chafa and without the need to change TERM env variable). Maybe the README should indicate it.

care to explain further? without a config it does not display images using kitty image format for viu 1.5.0 just like how my post describes. My image shows a very clear example how it just works using kitty image protocol when you set term to xterm-kitty

I dont see anywhere in viu --help where I can set the output type either

[rhodes-b]

looking at the source of the library, it does term name matching so it will work in ghostty if your version is new enough. Again like I stated above its built into the kitty image protocol to query for image support instead of name matching terminals
https://github.com/atanunq/viuer/blob/f66fa7710ee82a2bfc03e259889445b797ac5709/src/printer/kitty.rs#L62