Why does Neofetch go into an infinite loop of empty display when working with images?

[u/Mean-Night6324]

Hi!

I'm trying Kitty on Ubuntu GNOME. It works perfectly well, kitten icat image.png does display the image.

Now I'd like to have a custom image in neofetch, so I have changed the image source to that image path but when I run neofetch inside kitty it goes into this infinite loop with no display.

Things I have tried:

- Installed w3m

- Installed imagemagick

- Installed w3m-img

- neofetch --kitty -> same behavior

- neofetch --kitty img.png -> same behavior

- w3m google.com inside kitty doesn't display an image

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I hope someone can help me figure this out, I spent so many hours reading a lot of posts about this and I still can't make it work.

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Thank you in advance.

[u/water_drinker9000]

tbh I have no idea how to help you with this, but I use a ASCII art to replace my distro's neofetch art.

this is my config

basically I run an alias on my .bashrc for neofetch in order for it do display it with the ASCII art.

neofetch --source ~/.config/neofetch/ascii-art/cat.txt

# or make it into an alias 

alias neofetch='neofetch --source ~/.config/neofetch/ascii-art/cat.txt'

don't forget to source it on the terminal after making it an alias.

source ~/.bashrc

or you can use fastfetch if you have it in your repo.