image preview on vifm

[derrickcope]

It works fine in termite on arch linux but I am trying to have it preview file in vifm. This is what I have currently

fileviewer *.jpg, *.jpeg
\ /usr/local/bin/timg -g100x100 %c

I am getting an image but it is basically garbage
Does anyone have this working?

[hzeller]

This is typically because terminal programs keep tight control over what is being output to the terminal, so that it doesn't destory its UI. Maybe there is a configuration option for vifm to configure it to let color control codes through ?

[hzeller]

I tried a current version of vifm and it seems to work. I've just added it to the filextype like follows

filextype *.avi,*.mp4,*.wmv,*.dat,*.3gp,*.ogv,*.mkv,*.mpg,*.mpeg,*.vob,
         \*.fl[icv],*.m2v,*.mov,*.webm,*.ts,*.mts,*.m4v,*.r[am],*.qt,*.divx,
         \*.as[fx]
        \ {View in timg}
        \ timg --title --center --clear %f,

filextype *.bmp,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.gif,*.xpm
        \ {View in timg}
        \ timg --title --center --clear %f; read -n1 -s -r -p "Press any key to return",

[hzeller]

Documentation about how to use in vifm now in the toplevel README.

[JakeJing]

The proposed solution doesn't work. No image is shown in vifm. I tried it on kitty, iterm2 and WezTerm. My current setting in vifmrc looks like this:

fileviewer *.bmp,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png,*.gif,*.xpm
        \ timg -g %pwx%ph %f

It gives a blurry image preview. Adding -pk flag fails to view the image. Can you pls update the solution? Thanks!

[hzeller]

this is probably because vifm filters the extra escape codes used for the high resolution images. This is not something timg can work around, you need to ask the vifm project and ask how you can get that going.