Ghostty album cover image

[5183nischal]

Is your feature already implemented in the latest master?
No

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Ghostty terminal supports kitty graphics but the album cover is not rendered using it.

Describe the solution you'd like
Use kitty graphics protocol to display album cover.

[m4r1vs]

It is rendered for me using ghostty on x86 Linux with Wayland.. are you maybe using a multiplexer like tmux? That could interfere with spotify_player being able to detect the terminal

[m4r1vs]

Try running spotify_player (built with the image feature ofc) using ghostty -e spotify_player and see if it works now :)

[5183nischal]

Hi, thank you! Yes, tmux was the issue. Is there a way to get a proper rendering inside tmux? I didn't see anything in the docs.

[m4r1vs]

Hmm, not sure if this is an issue with this project, tmux or ghostty. Do you know if it works with tmux in kitty terminal? If so, that indicates that it should be solved in ghostty or tmux.

However, some other apps like yazi work for me in tmux with ghostty so maybe this can be fixed in here directly.

Unfortunately, I have no experience whatsoever with the kitty protocol and have no idea how to check if it is available.
However, right now I am digging through the codebase a bit so if I find a solution, I'll post it here

[m4r1vs]

Seems to be handled by https://github.com/atanunq/viuer

[m4r1vs]

Maybe relevant: atanunq/viuer#67

[m4r1vs]

https://github.com/atanunq/viuer/blob/f66fa7710ee82a2bfc03e259889445b797ac5709/src/printer/kitty.rs#L62

[m4r1vs]

They check for "ghostty" in the "$TERM" environment variable. Maybe set it manually for now?

[m4r1vs]

Okay, when I do export TERM="xterm-ghostty", spotify_player won't start..

[m4r1vs]

Same for doing it through tmux and updating "TERM_PROGRAM"

[m4r1vs]

I wonder how yazi (and image.nvim) do it...? I have

set -g allow-passthrough all
set -ga update-environment TERM
set -ga update-environment TERM_PROGRAM

in my tmux config but not quite sure what it does tbh

[m4r1vs]

Just commented out these lines and yazi kitty still works lol

[m4r1vs]

Seems like this needs to be addressed in viuer because when we set the terminal to "xterm-ghostty" within tmux, viuer::get_kitty_support() blocks till infinity

[rhodes-b]

Hmm, not sure if this is an issue with this project, tmux or ghostty. Do you know if it works with tmux in kitty terminal? If so, that indicates that it should be solved in ghostty or tmux.

However, some other apps like yazi work for me in tmux with ghostty so maybe this can be fixed in here directly.

Unfortunately, I have no experience whatsoever with the kitty protocol and have no idea how to check if it is available. However, right now I am digging through the codebase a bit so if I find a solution, I'll post it here

There is a way to allow it to work in tmux etc as well, but both the terminal and program have to support this both kitty and ghostty support the pass-through not sure if the program does

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol/#unicode-placeholders