Sprites looking distorted on Pop_OS! 22.04

[Ysujy]

OS:
Pop_OS! 22.04

Dependencies:
bash/jammy,now 5.1-6ubuntu1 amd64
curl/jammy-security,jammy-updates,now 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 amd64
jq/jammy,now 1.6-2.1ubuntu3 amd64
imagemagick/jammy,now 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3build2 amd64
chafa/jammy,now 1.8.0-1 amd64

Fonts used
Powerline
Noto Mono

Terminals used
Gnome Terminal
Alacritty

Shell
zsh
bash

Output of $ pokeshell random

Output of $ pokeshell random -a

The distortion might be harder to make out with animated sprites, but they're still present.

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Thank you for creating such a cool project. I hope we can get to the bottom of this issue.

[acxz]

Thanks for making an issue!

So I actually think they don't look distorted. Can you clarify what kind of output you would like? Are you looking for true image support like sixels/iTerm2/kitty protocols?

[Ysujy]

You're right!!! I didn't know that neither Gnome Terminal nor Alacritty have true image support. Just tried Kitty and the output is looking way better.

Unfortunately, animated sprites are still looking kinda distorted

As compared to the image in the README

[acxz]

Nice glad to hear you got it working!

For the animations that you see on the readme, an older version of pokeshell was used that utilized timg. I recently made the switch over to chafa since it overall has more support. However, one open issue it has is that it doesn't play nice with gifs for the kitty terminal.

See the following issue: hpjansson/chafa#104

We can do two things, wait for chafa to fix their kitty support, or add timg support back in. The time it takes to add timg support, chafa will probably have the issue resolved, so we should probably just wait on it.

[Ysujy]

Glad to hear that there might be a fix under way. Anyway, thank you for helping out and have a good one.