#8209·hyper

4.0.0-canary.5: Sixel support gets eaten by Windows ConPTY Fallback

Author: blindmikeyCreated Aug 22, 2026Updated Aug 22, 2026
  • I am on the latest Hyper.app version

  • I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate

  • OS version and name: Windows 11 Pro 25H2

  • Hyper.app version: 4.0.0-canary.5

  • Link of a Gist with the contents of your hyper.json: N/A

  • Relevant information from devtools (CMD+ALT+I on macOS, CTRL+SHIFT+I elsewhere): N/A

  • The issue is reproducible in vanilla Hyper.app: Is Vanilla

Issue

Sixel support gets eaten by the fallback to Windows's old ConPTY. Updating node-pty to 1.1.0 and using useConptyDll:true would utilize the newer version of ConPTY that ships with node-pty 1.1.0 allowing windows users to have sixel support.