kovidgoyal
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4 years ago kitty does not have to spawn new windows/tab to display images. It can perfectly well display images inside another program. To see this in action use kitty's own diff program https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/kittens/diff.html
As for why its not working inside weechat, it will likely need to be properly integrated, see https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html
I run my irc client, weechat in kitty and its beautiful font rendering, thank you for that!
On some (Discord) channels, when users post emojis, it shows up in the irc client as:
This, kitty's GPU acceleration, and a conversation I had with a weechat scripter a few days ago, got me thinking if it might ever be possible to display those images in the ncurses client?
Inside weechat, I did try:
/exec kitty +kitten icat 'https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/_static/kitty.png'Which does not work, it prints_Gi=1;OKGi=2;OKi)] Checking for graphics (10.0s max. wait)...Next, I created a new buffer (chat window) and tried inside that:
/buffer add -free icat/exec kitty +kitten icat 'https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/_static/kitty.png'Which throwsThis terminal emulator does not support the graphics protocol, use a terminal emulator such as kitty that does support it...Since kitty has to spawn a new tab/windows AFAIK to display the image, would a feature like this ever be possible? In an IRC client, it's probably fraught with issues like limits on the number of lines, line wraps and such but I couldn't help wonder.