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Asked: 2020-06-09 15:04:27 +0800 CST

w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?

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I've updated apt and installed w3m and w3m-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.

w3m

1 Answers

  1. 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

    w3m.sourceforge.net page

    Note: it may not work on text TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) inside VirtualBox - I have seen this problem.

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