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   Message 20,349 of 21,759   
   D to yeti   
   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   29 Nov 24 10:38:06   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 29 Nov 2024, yeti wrote:   
      
   > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:   
   >   
   >> W3m displays images in XTerm and other terminal emulators, so that   
   >> might be what you want for a browser. I'm not sure if there's a   
   >> list of terminal emulators that support image display from it.   
   >> This page mentions that some require changes to the configuration:   
   >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/W3m   
   >   
   > I think W3M seems to put another window layer atop the terminal to   
   > display images.  It works, but my main use case for W3M is as man page   
   > viewer W3MMAN (aliased to man), so I don't care much for it's image   
   > capabilities.   
   >   
   > Elinks has a `./configure` option to enable Sixels, which I did, and I   
   > see the generated binary being linked to `libsixel`, found the run-time   
   > option to enable Sixel graphics, but I never see any images displayed.   
   >   
   >       
   >   
   > If someone succeeds with this, please ping me.   
   >   
      
   Thank you for mentioning it. I will have a look!   
      
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