w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?
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First of all w3m-img package provides
inline image extension support utilities for w3m
so it does not have separate executable.
Then visit web-site with inline images like
w3m http://w3m.sourceforge.net
and you will get something like
Note: it may not work on text TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) inside VirtualBox - I have seen this problem.
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JavaRunner
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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JavaRunner almost 2 years
I've updated apt and installed
w3m
andw3m-both
:$ apt install w3m-img Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done w3m is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1). w3m-img is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded. $ which w3m /usr/bin/w3m $ which w3mimgdisplay w3mimgdisplay not found $ which w3m-img w3m-img not found $ ls -la /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay -rwxr-sr-x 1 root video 26640 Feb 5 2018 /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay
When I call:
w3m https://google.com
I don't see any images. How to fix it? I tried it in Tilix and in gnome-terminal. -
JavaRunner about 4 yearsI use Tilix as a terminal. Could this be a root of the problem?
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JavaRunner about 4 yearsAlso I tried gnome-terminal. Images don't show in both cases.
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N0rbert about 4 yearsFor me Tilix and GNOME Terminal do not work. But I see that it works with
xterm
,mate-terminal
,konsole
and plain dumb tty. -
Hritik over 2 yearsThis worked for me on st with w3m patch