"original image not loaded" when piping image in via stdin

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"original image not loaded" when piping image in via stdin

jazzpi opened this issue 2 years ago · comments

Jasper v. B. commented 2 years ago

Piping the output of grim (or of cat image.png) into swappy causes it to fail with

** (swappy:18194): CRITICAL **: 15:39:17.249: original image not loaded

swappy -f image.png works fine.

I'm on Fedora 36, using Sway version 1.7 and swappy version 1.4.0.

Jeremy Attali · Answer 1 · Mon Nov 21 2022 06:24:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Can you post the command you use?

Jasper v. B. · Answer 2 · Thu Nov 24 2022 05:03:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I was using cat image.png | swappy. After rereading the manpage, I realized I should use cat image.png | swappy -f -, which works fine. Sorry for any confusion.

A more descriptive error message would be nice though :)