Neofetch doesn't show image on Fedora using Gnome-terminal

[VerusGott]

Fedora 24, Neofetch 1.7-2

Verbose log: https://gist.github.com/VerusGott/b6b2330e188e28340706c9817cc536d8
As I think, neofetch can't get terminal size, because "printf %b%s" doesn't work for me. I checked it in both, Wayland and X.Org sessions, no difference. Any ideas about this?

[dylanaraps]

This isn't a neofetch issue, the log file shows that the image function inside
neofetch completes successfully. This is most likely an issue with w3m-img
and whatever terminal you're using on your system.

• Do images display inside w3m or ranger?

[VerusGott]

Strange. I am using gnome-terminal, wiki says that in bundle with it all should work. But I checked and it really doesn't show any image inside w3m. But, in rxvt, neofetch and w3m correctly display images. This is my specific problem, or maybe we should update wiki?

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OK, mb I'm found where is problem. RedHat patched gnome-terminal to add transparency, it seems that this functionality completely breaks display of images. Even if transparency is disabled. I have no idea about that. Can anyone confirm it?

[dylanaraps]

Images work for me in gnome-terminal on my Ubuntu install. This is either a problem
with gnome-terminal on your system or a problem with the gnome-terminal package
in Fedora. I'm not entirely sure.

[VerusGott]

OK, it's currently working for me on Arch Linux with gnome-terminal (but not in Wayland session), you can close this ticket. I think we need to clarify in wiki, that showing up images will not work in Fedora (can someone else confirm it?), because they patched gnome-terminal.

[dylanaraps]

I'll add a note to the wiki and I'll leave this issue open to see if any Fedora users
stumble across it.

[watzon]

Just tried on my Fedora 30 install, same result as above

[Hummenix]

I can also confirm it doesn't work

[Sanaki]

Same issue appears to apply to Mint, at least on 19.3.

[Sanquinary]

Same issue here; Fedora 33.

[Sophon96]

I can also confirm that it does not work on CentOS Stream 8.

[OlaoluwaM]

Can confirm for fedora 34 as well. Doesn't work :/

[OlaoluwaM]

And fedora 35

[nairvarun]

same issue on fedora 36

[Titor8115]

(Edit: I even got it working on Alacritty but no luck on the fedora gnome-term)

Damn. It seems this issue lasted 6 years on Fedora for their distribution of gnome-terminal. Probably messed up somewhere when compiling the gnome-terminal from source. Also I find it interesting that the gnome-terminal on Fedora doesn't actually use any wrapper only the gnome-terminal-server is running

[LunarWatcher]

Same problem on Linux Mint 21, also using Gnome Terminal

[Capta1nT0ad]

The same issue is occurring on Linux Mint 19.3, 20.3, and 21. Looks like they patched it too 😕

[Just-Koi]

Fedora 37, doesn't update the photo after running: neofetch --w3m --source /home/terminal/bad.png, w3m and imagemagick dependencies are installed successfuly

[TanXiRan]

Fedora39 and gnome terminal, dependencies are successfully installed, but it dosen't display the image.