Image preview support for lf-sixel using chafa and sixels

This set of scripts is used along lf to generate image previews and much like vifmimg it is able to handle image, video and ebook previews.

When a SSH-connection has been established, chafa will be used instead.

Prerequisites

Besides lf-sixel and chafa you will need to install the following packages:

• ffmpegthumbnailer
• ImageMagick
• poppler
• epub-thumbnailer
• wkhtmltopdf
• bat (optional - color highlight for text files)
• unzip (optional - for .zip and .jar files)
• 7z (optional - for .7z files)
• unrar (optional - for .rar files)
• catdoc (optional - for .doc files)
• docx2txt (optional - for .docx files)
• odt2txt (optional - for .odt and *.ods files)
• gnumeric (optional - for .xls and .xlsx files)
• exiftool (optional - for music files)
• iso-info (optional - for .iso files)
• transmission (optional - for .torrent files)
• mcomix (optional - for .cbz and .cbr files)

Installation

In the project directory you can run the following command:

make install

To install this to your system, or you can do it manually by following the guide below:

1. Extract the following files: preview to ~/.config/lf/.
2. Extract lfrun to a directory that is in your $PATH variable (such as /usr/bin).
3. Edit your ~/.config/lf/lfrc file and add the following lines:

set previewer ~/.config/lf/preview

4. In order to launch lf with image preview support from now on, you will need to use the supplied lfrun script.

I recommend that you make an alias in your shell that points to lfrun.

Credits

• lf
• Seebye's Überzug
• Brodie's initial preview script which I used as a template for handling the miscellaneous filetypes that this script also handles.