No sixel output from Canvas.print() on xterm

[jerch]

Is there a way to force sixel output to output the sixel string?

Have a couple of terminals tested, that have working sixel support (eg. xterm), but chafa.py is only giving me an empty string as output.

[GuardKenzie]

Yes! xterm is one of the terminals not detected properly so instead of executing

canvas.print()

you can execute

canvas.print(fallback=True)

to supplement the auto-detected terminal sequences with fallback control sequences (in your case, sixel control sequences).

You just have to be careful when doing this since you will just get a long string of random letters and symbols if you try this on a terminal that doesn't support sixels (e.g. kitty).

edit

Check out this section in the tutorial and the docs for Canvas.print()

[jerch]

Oh sorry, missed that section in the docs. Thx alot!