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sixel doesn't work on windows#1243
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Hi, recently sixel support landed to windows terminal, i tried to display logo with fastfetch but it doesn't work, i've used I've a couple questions:
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No. I compiled fastfetch locally with imagemagick support. Sixel image does work for OpenConsole (A newer Conhost bundled in Windows Terminal). However it still doesn't work for Windows Terminal due tomicrosoft/terminal#8581 |
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Neofetch could display logo under WSL (tested both on OpenConsole & Windows Terminal) using sixel backend when I tested yesterday. Sorry I've not gone through the above issue fully that you mentioned as it's too long, but it seems to prevent fastfetch from displaying logos, right ? Would it be a good idea that releases come with imagemagick support ? |
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Okey. It turns out thatmicrosoft/terminal#8581 is supported, but has bugs. Did some trick and now sixel image protocol works for me in Windows Terminal |
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I tried compiling the latest as well as a fairly old version of fastfetch with I see a |
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What did you do to get it to work? I am not getting anything rendered in WSL2 in windows terminal 1.23. |
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@CarterLi would it be nice to include ootb support for imagemagick in every windows release ? what do you think ? |
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@CarterLi |
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So what? |
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hi I’m on 2025 terminal still doesn’t work please help |
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You can convert your image to sixel format by any online converter. Then use |
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@CarterLi I'm also looking for support for this. I am able to display native sixel images fine, but this is extremely annoying and finicky as I have to manually resize the image, text, and resize over any over. I successfully compiled fastfetch locally to include imagemagick7 and chafa. I now get the error Logo: getCharacterPixelDimensions() failed when trying to display an .png as sixel, and this is due to the bug you linked above. How were you able to patch this to get sixel working? If this is a relatively simple fix please let me know and I will do it myself locally. |
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It has been fixed in the dev branch |
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I checked the features on my fastfetch install and imagemagick is available, so I assumed
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It was built with imagemagick features but imagemagick dlls are not bundled in the zip archives.
You also need to set |
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So what needs doing to get And the height ok, my bad. |
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@CarterLi i've added image magick dir (having libs) to PATH and set MAGICK_HOME but still i get image magick library not found |
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You may install fastfetch in MSYS2 if you want sixel support. For example: |
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i'm giving up on sixel on windows i'm unable to find the right logo height & width with tried clear before fastfetch, tried padding but that didn't work as well |
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I got this working briefly. I think the canary version of windows terminalsupports sixel, or one of the other formats used by fast fetch. I also hadto explicitly tell fast fetch to use that format. It wasn’t perfect but itdid work, I think the width and height constraints didn’t work right. …-------Very Respectfully,Abhi Bhattacharyya On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 17:41 Kim Schulz ***@***.***> wrote: What did you do to get it to work? I am not getting anything rendered in WSL2 in windows terminal 1.23. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1243 (reply in thread)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ADEHVLMCTEHFSXPZQWSA2ZL3PIWQJAVCNFSM6AAAAACEWDGH2GVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43URDJONRXK43TNFXW4Q3PNVWWK3TUHMYTIMRQGQ2DIMY> . You are receiving this because you commented.Message ID: ***@***.*** com> |
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