cmus_sixel

About

cmus status display program that displays the cover of the current playing song using libsixel or kitty.

Requirements

• Terminal with Sixel or Kitty support
• cmus
• ffmpeg
• libsixel

Building from source

1. Install Dependencies

Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt install gcc libsixel-dev libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libswscale-dev cmus pkg-config

Arch Linux:

sudo pacman -S gcc libsixel ffmpeg cmus pkgconf

2. Compile

git clone https://github.com/S22F5/cmus_sixel.git && cd cmus_sixel

gcc -O3 main.c -o cmus_sixel $(pkg-config --libs libsixel libavformat libavcodec libswscale libavutil)

3. Install

cp cmus_sixel cmus_sixel.conf "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cmus/"

4. Enable in cmus

cmus-remote -C "set status_display_program=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cmus/cmus_sixel"