Hey! Super cool tool!

I've installed this on a linux machine. The images appear pixelated while using the default terminal or even tabby

Here is an example of using imgcat:

And the image opened normally

is there any getting around the pixelation?

I installed imgcat with scoop and run it to display avatar.png .
imgcat throw error with below:

(base) PS C:\Users\mago\Downloads> imgcat avatar.png
2024/03/19 10:55:42 failed to get the terminal size: unsupported
panic: failed to get the terminal size: unsupported

goroutine 1 [running]:
log.Panicf({0x8cd730, 0xc0000060c0}, {0xc000109f10, 0x18cd63, 0x18cd64})
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.17.7/x64/src/log/log.go:361 +0x67
main.scale({0xc000064000, 0x1, 0x18cd64})
        /home/runner/work/imgcat/imgcat/main.go:151 +0xe8
main.main()
        /home/runner/work/imgcat/imgcat/main.go:287 +0x15f

Using the snap package, imgcat returns permission denied error when a file is given as input in the argument.

However, it works fine when reading standard input (e.g. cat <image>.jpg | imgcat). Here is an example:

I have tested it on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS & 20.04 LTS. Thanks for the follow-up in advance!

edit: typo

❯ imgcat JIF.png
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x0 pc=0x341535]

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/creack/pty.Getsize(...)
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/github.com/creack/pty@v1.1.17/winsize.go:23
main.scale({0xc000088220, 0x1, 0x111e7a})
        /home/runner/work/imgcat/imgcat/main.go:148 +0x75
main.main()
        /home/runner/work/imgcat/imgcat/main.go:277 +0x8f
NativeCommandExitException: Program "imgcat.exe" ended with non-zero exit code: 2.

I get this whenever I attempt to open any image file

Currently it shows Invalid MIME type for .ico images.

This is a great tool. Just wanted to mention that it adds spurious color to grayscale images. Glancing at the code, this is probably related to the resampling filter during resizing.

Thanks a lot for Imgcat! It's the only way I have found to preview images in a Windows command prompt.

I am trying to get Imgcat and Vifm work together on Windows 10, using Imgcat to show images in Vifm's preview pane.

Imgcat works fine by itself in cmd prompt but it does not seem to work from Vifm, producing the error message:
failed to get the console state: The handle is invalid.

Since I wasn't sure where the problem is rooted, I first asked over at Vifm. From what I understand Vifm expects some kind of output while Imgcat prints directly to the console.

A workaround was tried but didn't help. Here's the Question over at Vifm's github for reference:
vifm/vifm#671

I am not sure if it is possible on Windows at all, but could Imgcat be made to give Vifm the right output somehow?