When will Tilix support showing images in ranger or in w3m?

[ProgrammingLife]

Tilix is awesome terminal but I would see support for showing images in a terminal. I don't know how exactly called this feature. For example, ranger in Kitty or Urxvt can show images. Also w3m shows images in those terminals. But not in tillix.

Linux Mint: 19.1 Tilix: 1.7.7-1ubuntu2 (installed via apt), 1.9.1 (installed from ppa)

[sjpp]

Tilix is using libvte to render the terminal, as gnome-terminal does for instance. It is not related to Tilix itself. As long as libvte will not add this feature (and I doubt it will be added someday), Tilix won't display those images.

[ghost]

FYI VTE has sixel support in git head, just not yet released: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/253

[Salamandar]

It looks like, even though the upstream VTE issue is still open, it's now supported. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/raggesilver/blackbox/-/merge_requests/63

I have libvte-2.91 on Manjaro and the symbols vte_terminal_set_enable_sixel, vte_terminal_get_enable_sixel are present.

[metanoia1980]

Im still waiting for this to come true... w3m is garbage the image disappears every time we run the mouse over it, ueberzug has ended... I dont wanna change to kitty just for the image, there is no terminal like Tilix in my opinion and I really wish they would somehow fix this image issue.

[oliwer]

For reference, here is how sixel was enabled in xfce4-terminal (another vte terminal): https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/-/commit/493a7a54b437df9419847b29fe94eae671816c09