Media

Inline images

Still images draw inline in a rounded card titled with the media label, with the caption inside under the image, in the chat and in the thread pane.

Terminal	How images draw
kitty, Ghostty (outside tmux)	Full-resolution kitty graphics
Any other truecolor terminal	Truecolor ▄ half-blocks

Kitty graphics are detected from TERM, TERM_PROGRAM and KITTY_WINDOW_ID. Inside tmux, images fall back to half-blocks.

Only images for messages on screen are downloaded. View-once and self-destructing media never load inline.

Videos and other files

Videos, video notes and GIFs get a small card with a play mark beside their details. Nothing is downloaded until you open it.

Other attachments show as dim tags, such as:

[photo] 1280x720, 245 KB
[file] report.pdf, 1.2 MB — the caption

Opening attachments

• Click an image card or [tag] row to download it and open it in your default app with xdg-open (open on macOS).
• Or select the message and choose open, play or save in its actions. Audio and video play in mpv; Esc returns to the chat.

Cache

Downloads live in ~/.cache/wiregram/media (os.UserCacheDir()/wiregram/media), shared by inline images and click-to-open, and are pruned after 7 days unseen.

Uploading

Ctrl+U in a chat opens the upload browser. Browse folders with the arrows, or press / or ~ to type a path (Tab completes, ↑/↓ cycle matches). Add an optional caption and press Enter.