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Lr2bej77n892lio

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[SOLVED] Sixel not working on terminal.

$ img2sixel <image>.jpg

When I run this command, the Foot terminal doesn't show any error messages or image.
I also tested this in Kitty, and it failed as well.

$ chafa -f sixel <image>.jpg

But this works well.

Last edited by Lr2bej77n892lio (2026-01-26 18:22:55)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Sixel not working on terminal.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=311650
It's glycin, https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … -/issues/2

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Lr2bej77n892lio

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Registered: 2025-04-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Sixel not working on terminal.

thank you for the clarification.