How to preview images with timg

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Runtime Environment

• Operating system and version: osx 13.3
• Terminal emulator and version: alacritty 0.13.1
• Python version: python3.11
• Ranger version/commit: 1.9.3
• Locale: zh-cn and en

[lkschu]

I couldn't get timg to work. It seems to be a problem with timg which always tries (and fails) to read the terminal size, even if an explicit size is given. tiv however, is very similar and works without any problems.

In rc.conf, you need:

set preview_images false
set preview_files true

in your scope.sh, you need this:

    image/*)
        tiv "${FILE_PATH}" -w "${PV_WIDTH}" && exit 4
        exit 1;;

Edit: Small addition: you can speed up the image preview by using imagemagicks scale (it's still not that fast though):

    image/*)
        tiv -w "${PV_WIDTH}" <(convert "${FILE_PATH}" -scale 512x512\> /dev/stdout)  && exit 4

In the same way, you can use ffmpegthumbnailer or pdftoppm to generate previews for videos and pdfs and pass them to tiv

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Thanks for sharing