Image Previews in Kitty

#kitty#terminal#images#CLI#productivity

Why switch to GUI file managers when your terminal can show thumbnails?

Basic Image Preview

1. Preview Single Image

Terminal window
kitty +kitten icat image.jpg

2. Clear Preview

Terminal window
kitty +kitten icat --clear

Advanced Workflows

Yazi File Manager Previews

Terminal window
sudo pacman -S yazi  # installation

Read more: Yazi: The Blazing-Fast Terminal File Manager Built in Rust

Configuration Reference

Command Action
icat --align left Left-align images

Integration with Common Tools

PDF Thumbnails

Terminal window
pdftoppm -jpeg -f 1 -singlefile doc.pdf | kitty +kitten icat

Components:

  1. pdftoppm: PDF to image converter (part of Poppler utils)
  2. -jpeg: Output JPEG
  3. -f 1: Start at first page
  4. -singlefile: Output only the first page

Installation Requirements

Terminal window
sudo pacman -S poppler  # pdftoppm

Web Images

Terminal window
curl -s https://example.com/image.jpg | kitty +kitten icat
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