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wookayin / python-imgcat

🖼 imgcat in Python (for iTerm2)

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Add kitty graphics protocol support #8

Open wookayin opened 4 years ago

wookayin commented 4 years ago

Work in progress. Upstream issue: #4

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html

[x] works on plain kitty terminal e.g. python -m imgcat FILENAME.png or imgcat(np.array(...))
[ ] tmux support: it can print graphics, but they do not get cleared well
- pixels per line information is missing, so it is quite difficult to allocate proper amount of spaces
[ ] Support all parameters

/cc @teto

ElPiloto commented 2 years ago

Any chance this will get merged?

wookayin commented 2 years ago

I'll finish this soon. Thanks for bumping up!

kzhang2 commented 2 years ago

Bumping this PR! I would also find this very useful.

newzealandpaul commented 1 year ago

Would be great to have this merged

wookayin commented 1 year ago

I can merge this soon, but it's really annoying (currently impossible) to make imgcat work well inside tmux. This is the limitation of kitty.

nounder commented 4 months ago

@wookayin an update:

[...] it's really annoying (currently impossible) to make imgcat work well inside tmux

tmux has now set -gq allow-passthrough on