Terminal image previews via sixel are borked

YaLTeR / niri

A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

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Terminal image previews via sixel are borked #699

Closed masroof-maindak closed 1 month ago

masroof-maindak commented 1 month ago

All programs that use terminal image previews - lf and spotify_player in my case - are almost unusable. The images randomly start flickering, or don't update, or update into existence for one nanosecond before reverting to the last shown image. I should mention: the same behaviour is NOT present in River, but IS present in cosmic.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/68a05446-84a8-4f4b-8e1b-669d6179988d

System Information

niri version: 0.1.9

Distro: Arch Linux

GPU: Intel integrated graphics

CPU: Intel i5-4278U

YaLTeR commented 1 month ago

Hey,

IS present in cosmic

In this case you should report this issue to Smithay. It's either a terminal bug or a Smithay bug.

masroof-maindak commented 1 month ago

Hey,

IS present in cosmic

In this case you should report this issue to Smithay. It's either a terminal bug or a Smithay bug.

I'm unaware of any other Wayland terminals that implement sixel and there's a much higher chance it's a Smithay bug since it's not present in River, but I'll see if I can confirm my theory first.

I'll report wherever's suitable, thanks for the input.