PTUI (Picture TUI) is a terminal-based image viewer written in Rust that provides a file browser interface with real-time image preview capabilities.
The software needs:
- chafa – For converting images to ANSI/terminal output
- ImageMagick (identify command) – For image dimension detection
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Support for common image formats.
- Real-time image preview using ANSI terminal graphics.
- Multiple picture-to-text converters: chafa and jp2a supported so far.
- Slide show mode with arrow-key support and transitions (transitions only with jp2a).
- Navigate with arrow keys or vim-style j/k.
- Enter directories with Enter, go back with Backspace.
- Multilingual support (English, German, Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese).
- Dynamic window resizing with [ and ] keys and when terminal changes.
- Caching of rendered images for performance.
- Scrollable file lists for directories with many files.
- Support for both image and text file preview.
- Open in file system browser (if available).
- Delete file.
- Save picture to ascii.
- Sort by date asc/desc or name.
- Dynamic reloading of configuration.
Website: github.com/narbs/ptui
Support:
Developer: Christian Clare
License: MIT License
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