help wanted: simplest way to display an image using ueberzugpp

[justchokingaround]

i would like to get some help on how i could simply display an image in the terminal, by specifying its position, something that was done in Luke Smith's video using the original ueberzug:

#!/bin/bash
source "`ueberzug library`"

ImageLayer 0< <(
  ImageLayer::add [identifier]="example0" [x]="$2" [y]="$3" [max_width]="$5" [max_height]="$4" [path]="$1"
  read
)

[jstkdng]

hm, that bash library was later deprecated by seebye so I wouldn't use it. The easiest way to display images is through the unix socket ueberzugpp provides, be it with another tool or with ueberzugpp itself.Plus it is not so "simple", ueberzug still has to keep running to handle X11 events. I was thinking of implementing a standalone version of ueberzug but that'd only work with kitty, sixel and iterm2, plus it would not work with animated gifs.

[justchokingaround]

and how could i do that with a shell script to just display the image, with ueberzugpp itself? i've been struggling a bit to figure out how everything works, and it's hard to find any documentation online

[jstkdng]

The lfub script and the fzfub script are examples of that. Unless you want something easier than that.

[justchokingaround]

actually, i just figured out how to replicate that, this is what i was trying to achieve:

#!/bin/sh

UB_PID_FILE="/tmp/.$(uuidgen)"
ueberzugpp layer --no-stdin --silent --use-escape-codes --pid-file "$UB_PID_FILE"
UB_PID="$(cat "$UB_PID_FILE")"
export UB_SOCKET=/tmp/ueberzugpp-"$UB_PID".socket
ueberzugpp cmd -s "$UB_SOCKET" -a add -i PREVIEW -x "$1" -y "$2" --max-width "$3" --max-height "$4" -f "$5"
read -r
ueberzugpp cmd -s "$UB_SOCKET" -a exit

should i PR it as an example in the scripts directory? it might be useful to some people i guess

[jstkdng]

sure, it could be useful to someone else.

[justchokingaround]

using this with the output set to wayland doesn't work btw, i'm not sure if i should report that or not?

[jstkdng]

no need, there's already #55 .