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
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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.
Source: vercel/hyper