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Hi, icat by default uses indexed (256 colors) mode. To enable 24bits, use the switch '-m 24bit' or '-m both'.

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Hi!
Thanks for the reply! I tried it with that switch, but the results seems pixelated. Is there anyway to get around it? I am looking for an effect similar to imgcat that is available on iterm. Seems to me icat resizes the image and then upscales it to terminal size causes it to become pixelated. (I am just speculating, I might be completely wrong here in this assumption.)

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The results are pixelated, because icat uses the Unicode box characters ▀ and ▄ with the right foreground and background color escapes to draw images, as there is no standard way to output actual images in terminal emulators. There are ways to achieve what you want on Linux, they depend on which terminal emulator you use, though.

• You can use terminology and its special tycat tool to output images
• mlterm and xterm (compiled with --enable-sixel-graphics option and started with -ti vt340 option) support libsixel, where you can use img2sixel to output images
• Someone also wrote a patch to support libsixel in urxvt

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