How to setup Alacritty to show fastfetch

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I’ve been running fastfetch on konsole (Plasma) and I have entered a path in fastfetch that shows me a small logo. This does not work with Alacritty.

Fastfetch in Konsole

fastfetch45
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fastfetch.jsonc 
// created by swh
  //},
  //{
    //"$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
    //"logo": {
        //"padding": {
           // "top": 2
        //}

{
  "$schema": "https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/raw/dev/doc/json_schema.json",
  "logo": {
    "source": "/home/swh/Plasma/EOS/EndeavourOS-Logos/startreks.png"
  },
   "display": {
        "separator": "  ->  "
    },
  "modules": [
    {
      "type": "custom",
      "format": "┌───────── \u001B[1mEat  , Sleep  , EndeavourOS  .\u001B[0m ─────────┐"
    },
    "break",
    "title",
    "break",
    {
           "type": "custom", // SystemStart
           "format": "├─────────── \u001b[1mSystem Information\u001b[0m ───────────┤"
    },
    "break",
    "host",
    "bios",
    "cpu",
    "gpu",
    "vulkan",
    "disk",
    "memory",
    "swap",
    "display",
    "sound",
    "break",
    {
            "type": "custom", // SoftwareStart
            "format": "├─────────── \u001b[1mSoftware Information\u001b[0m ───────────┤"
    },
        "break",
        "os",
        "kernel",
        "lm",
        "de",
        "wm",
        "shell",
        "terminal",
        "terminalfont",
        "font",
        "theme",
        "icons",
        "packages",
        "uptime",
        "media",
        "break",
    {
      "type": "custom",
      "format": "└────────────────────── \u001B[1mThanks for fetching \u001B[0m─────────────────────────┘"
    },
    "break",
       {
            "type": "colors",
            "paddingLeft": 26,
            "symbol": "circle"
        }
    ]
}
Fastfetch in Alacritty

alacritty
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Alacritty.toml 
[colors.primary]
background = '#2c2c2c'
foreground = '#d6d6d6'

dim_foreground    = '#dbdbdb'
bright_foreground = '#d9d9d9'

# Cursor colors
[colors.cursor]
text   = '#2c2c2c'
cursor = '#d9d9d9'

# Normal colors
[colors.normal]
black   = '#1c1c1c'
red     = '#bc5653'
green   = '#909d63'
yellow  = '#ebc17a'
blue    = '#7eaac7'
magenta = '#aa6292'
cyan    = '#86d3ce'
white   = '#cacaca'

# Bright colors
[colors.bright]
black   = '#636363'
red     = '#bc5653'
green   = '#909d63'
yellow  = '#ebc17a'
blue    = '#7eaac7'
magenta = '#aa6292'
cyan    = '#86d3ce'
white   = '#f7f7f7'

# Dim colors
[colors.dim]
black   = '#232323'
red     = '#74423f'
green   = '#5e6547'
yellow  = '#8b7653'
blue    = '#556b79'
magenta = '#6e4962'
cyan    = '#5c8482'
white   = '#828282'


[font.normal]
family = "JetBrainsMono NF"
style  = "Regular"

[font]
size = 12.50
builtin_box_drawing = true

[shell]
program = "/bin/zsh"
args = ["-l"]

[window]
startup_mode = "Maximized"
dynamic_padding = true
opacity = 0.85
blur = true
dynamic_title = true
title = "Alacritty"

[window.padding]
x = 20
y = 20

    [[hints.enabled]]
    command = "xdg-open" # On Linux/BSD
    # command = "open" # On macOS
    # command = { program = "cmd", args = [ "/c", "start", "" ] } # On Windows
    hyperlinks = true
    post_processing = true
    persist = false
    mouse.enabled = true
    binding = { key = "U", mods = "Control|Shift" }
    regex = "(ipfs:|ipns:|magnet:|mailto:|gemini://|gopher://|https://|http://|news:|file:|git://|ssh:|ftp://)[^\u0000-\u001F\u007F-\u009F<>\"\\s{-}\\^⟨⟩`]+"

As you can see, Alacritty only displays a PNG text line and not the logo.
How do I have to setup my alacritty.toml to make the logo visible?

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Does Alacritty support showing images?

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Yes, with ytfzf it shows thumbnails too. The first thing I thought was that wayland doesn’t support it because of ueberzug in ytfzf, but I looked at the wiki again and got it to work.

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Could you share your configs for Alacritty/ueberzug ? Last week, I was trying to get them to work but kinda given up since :joy:

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I was also on the point of throwing my computer against the wall :sweat_smile:
Ueberzug dont work with Wayland. So i’ve been looking around on ytfzf wiki.
Under wayland this command works for me.

ytfzf -T chafa --show-thumbnails >artist<

Provided you have installed the addons

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Worked like a charm! Thanks :slight_smile:

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Great you got it working!

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I think this is the crux of the issue. Fastfetch only supports displaying images with certain protocols, like Kitty or Sixel for example. https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch/wiki/Logo-options

See also this related issue:

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Ok, that makes sense. Thank you!
I was looking for a solution yesterday, but couldn’t find this post. Now its clear

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Thanks SWH :fist:

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