Previewing SVG through Magick opens an undesired pop-up window

[pierreay]

What system are you running Yazi on?

Linux X11

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

Alacritty

yazi --debug output

Yazi
    Version: 25.4.4 (fd007ab 2025-04-05)
    Debug  : false
    Triple : x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (linux-x86_64)
    Rustc  : 1.86.0 (05f9846f 2025-03-31)

Ya
    Version: 25.3.2 (Arch Linux 2025-03-05)

Emulator
    TERM                : Some("tmux-256color")
    TERM_PROGRAM        : Some("tmux")
    TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION: Some("3.5a")
    Brand.from_env      : None
    Emulator.detect     : Emulator { kind: Right(Unknown { kgp: false, sixel: false }), light: false, cell_size: Some((8, 16)) }

Adapter
    Adapter.matches    : X11
    Dimension.available: WindowSize { rows: 63, columns: 119, width: 0, height: 0 }

Desktop
    XDG_SESSION_TYPE           : Some("tty")
    WAYLAND_DISPLAY            : None
    DISPLAY                    : Some(":0")
    SWAYSOCK                   : None
    HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE: None
    WAYFIRE_SOCKET             : None

SSH
    shared.in_ssh_connection: false

WSL
    WSL: false

Variables
    SHELL           : Some("/usr/sbin/zsh")
    EDITOR          : Some("nvim")
    VISUAL          : None
    YAZI_FILE_ONE   : None
    YAZI_CONFIG_HOME: None
    YAZI_ZOXIDE_OPTS: None
    FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS: None

Text Opener
    default     : Some(OpenerRule { run: "nvim \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "Edit (nvim)", for_: None, spread: true })
    block-create: Some(OpenerRule { run: "nvim \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "Edit (nvim)", for_: None, spread: true })
    block-rename: Some(OpenerRule { run: "nvim \"$@\"", block: true, orphan: false, desc: "Edit (nvim)", for_: None, spread: true })

Multiplexers
    TMUX               : true
    tmux version       : tmux 3.5a
    tmux build flags   : enable-sixel=Unknown
    ZELLIJ_SESSION_NAME: None
    Zellij version     : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Dependencies
    file          : 5.46
    ueberzugpp    : 2.9.6
    ffmpeg/ffprobe: 7.1 / 7.1
    pdftoppm      : 25.03.0
    magick        : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    fzf           : 0.60.3
    fd/fdfind     : 10.2.0 / No such file or directory (os error 2)
    rg            : 14.1.1
    chafa         : 1.14.5
    zoxide        : 0.9.7
    7zz/7z        : No such file or directory (os error 2) / No such file or directory (os error 2)
    jq            : 1.7.1

Clipboard
    wl-copy/paste: No such file or directory (os error 2) / No such file or directory (os error 2)
    xclip        : No such file or directory (os error 2)
    xsel         : No such file or directory (os error 2)

Routine
    `file -bL --mime-type`: text/plain


See https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/plugins/overview#debugging on how to enable logging or debug runtime errors.

Describe the bug

First, I'm wondering if I'm the only affected or not. When scrolling through SVGs file with the previewer (that is using ImageMagick under the hood), a very fast pop-up is opening and closing, interrupting the workflow of the user.

I think the bad behavior is from upstream, but which upstream? I did the same observation on some batch exporter scripts I've made (unrelated to Yazi) that are using Inkscape under the hood: even for an operation that is not using any GUI, since a recent update (of GTK ?), this popup is appearing at each Inkscape invocation.

Anyway, my workaround in my exporter script was to unset DISPLAY before calling the inkscape binary, and maybe Yazi could do the same for magick if I'm not the only concerned? I confirm that this fix the issue on my system. Theoretically, a file conversion program should not need access to the X server anyway.

Minimal reproducer

Some information on my ArchLinux system:

ImageMagick 7.1.1-47
gtk4 4.18.3-1

A test flie:

Beware that after the first preview, the PNG converted file for the preview will be cached un /tmp, and the magick process will not be fire up anymore if this file is existing.

Anything else?

No response

Checklist

• I tried the latest nightly build, and the issue is still reproducible
• I updated the debug information (yazi --debug) input box to the nightly that I tried
• I can reproduce it after disabling all custom configs/plugins (mv ~/.config/yazi ~/.config/yazi-backup)

[github-actions]

Hey @pierreay, I noticed that you did not correctly follow the issue template. Please ensure that:

• The bug can still be reproduced on the newest nightly build.
• The debug information (yazi --debug) is updated for the newest nightly.
• The non-optional items in the checklist are checked.

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[pierreay]

Well, I thought my Yazi version was more recent that the 25.3.2, so I tried with the newest nightly build and I was unable to reproduce the issue. I did not checked the code change to see exactly why this seems to be solved though. False positive I guess. ^^' Sorry for the noise.

[ze0987]

The issue will still be valid when imagemagick is built without librsvg and inkscape is installed (magick will fallback to inkscape). Also, if the decode delegate is inkscape, Yazi should use arguments tailored for inkscape.

Here's a PKGBUILD if you want to test it w/ latest nightly

# Maintainer: Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org>
# Contributor: Eric Bélanger <eric@archlinux.org>

pkgname=imagemagick
pkgver=7.1.1.47
pkgrel=1
_relname=ImageMagick-${pkgver%%.*}
_tarname=ImageMagick-${pkgver%.*}-${pkgver##*.}
pkgdesc='An image viewing/manipulation program'
url='https://www.imagemagick.org/'
arch=(x86_64)
license=(custom)
depends=(bzip2
         cairo
         fftw
         fontconfig
         freetype2
         gcc-libs
         glib2
         glibc
         lcms2
         liblqr
         libltdl
         libpng
         libraqm
         libxext
         libxml2
         xz
         zlib)
optdepends=('ghostscript: PS/PDF support'
            'jbigkit: JBIG support'
            'libheif: HEIF support'
            'libjpeg-turbo: JPEG support'
            'libjxl: JPEG XL support'
            'libraw: DNG support'
            'librsvg: SVG support'
            'libtiff: TIFF support'
            'libultrahdr: UHDR support'
            'libwebp: WEBP support'
            'libwmf: WMF support'
            'libzip: OpenRaster support'
            'ocl-icd: OpenCL support'
            'openexr: OpenEXR support'
            'openjpeg2: JPEG2000 support'
            'djvulibre: DJVU support'
            'pango: Text rendering')
options+=(!emptydirs libtool)
backup=(etc/$_relname/{colors,delegates,log,mime,policy,quantization-table,thresholds,type,type-{dejavu,ghostscript}}.xml)
provides=(libmagick)
makedepends=(chrpath
             djvulibre
             ghostscript
             glu
             jbigkit
             libheif
             libjpeg-turbo
             libjxl
             libraw
             librsvg
             libultrahdr
             libwebp
             libwmf
             libzip
             ocl-icd
             opencl-headers
             openexr
             openjpeg2)
checkdepends=(gsfonts
              ttf-dejavu)
replaces=(imagemagick-doc)
source=(https://imagemagick.org/archive/$_tarname.tar.xz{,.asc})
sha256sums=('2396cd3c4237cfbc09a89d31d1cee157ee11fbc8ec1e540530e10175cb707160'
            'SKIP')
validpgpkeys=(D8272EF51DA223E4D05B466989AB63D48277377A)  # Lexie Parsimoniae

build() {
  cd $_tarname
  ./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc \
    --enable-shared \
    --disable-static \
    --with-dejavu-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/TTF \
    --with-gs-font-dir=/usr/share/fonts/gsfonts \
    PSDelegate=/usr/bin/gs \
    XPSDelegate=/usr/bin/gxps \
    PCLDelegate=/usr/bin/gpcl6 \
    --enable-hdri \
    --enable-opencl \
    --without-gslib \
    --with-djvu \
    --with-fftw \
    --with-jxl \
    --with-lqr \
    --with-modules \
    --with-openexr \
    --with-openjp2 \
    --with-perl \
    --with-perl-options='INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALL_BASE=' \
    --with-uhdr \
    --with-webp \
    --with-wmf \
    --with-xml \
    --without-autotrace \
    --without-dps \
    --without-fpx \
    --without-gcc-arch \
    --without-gvc
  sed -i -e 's/ -shared / -Wl,-O1,--as-needed\0/g' libtool
  make
}

check() (
  cd $_tarname
  ulimit -n 4096
  make check
)

package() {
  cd $_tarname
  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install

  find "$pkgdir/usr/lib/perl5" -name '*.so' -exec chrpath -d {} +
  rm "$pkgdir"/etc/$_relname/type-{apple,urw-base35,windows}.xml
  rm "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/*.la

  install -Dm644 LICENSE NOTICE -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
}

[pierreay]

Hello @ze0987. Did you reproduced the bug? That makes sense, but when I tried with the ImageMagick compiled from your PKGBUILD and with Yazi nightly, I was unable to get any preview at all of my SVGs. ^^'

[ze0987]

Strange, perfectly reproducible here. Could you check with default config (mv ~/.config/yazi{,.bak}) and clean cache (yazi --clear-cache)?

nightly_imagemagick_wo_rsvg.mp4

[krir17]

This is in fact a bug in the latest version of Inkscape - so I don't think it is something for Yazi to fix. (It has also been fixed in Inkscape but there is no newer tag for downstream to pull yet).

[ze0987]

This is in fact a bug in the latest version of Inkscape

Nice, thanks for the info!

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