Artsy Chafa Output (Not Intended)

[jcdw99]

Chafa currently outputs the following for me:

Although the output is interesting, it is absolutely not as intended. Is this a known issue, or is this a result of me using the library incorrectly?

Input are .png images.

[hpjansson]

Hi, thanks for filing this.

I can't comment on the artistic merit of this particular work of art, but there could be several things going on. It's hard to say without a little more information, though:

• Which terminal are you using?
• What's the output from chafa --version?
• Could you attach a sample png image I can test with?

[hpjansson]

Missed that you're using the library. Do you have a code snippet?

[hpjansson]

@jcdw99 I guess you're busy, but if you still want this fixed, these two pieces of information may be enough:

• Output from echo $TERM
• The name of your terminal, and if you're running inside screen or tmux.

It looks like Chafa is emitting more colors than the terminal understands (it's only rendering 16). So a workaround may be to use chafa -c 16.

[hpjansson]

The extra info is still needed in order to fix this issue. In the meantime, I just released version 1.14.0; maybe that one works better?

[hpjansson]

Hi, it's been a while now. Hope everything's fine! Do you still need a fix for this?

[hpjansson]

Since it's been a year with no response, I'm taking the liberty of closing the issue. Newer Chafa versions have a lot of improvements. Feel free to reopen if the problem persists.