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Chrome display imag elinks inline2/28/2024 ![]() ![]() Some people can only boot their PCs with the framebuffer kernel support switched off at boot time or the system will not boot Linux at all. The Frambebuffer on or off is controlled via some directives added in grub or lilo configuration files – (depending on the installed boot loader). One w3m-img pre-requirement in order to be able to display pictures in plain text console ttys is to have the Linux kernel framebuffer enabled.Īctually, framebuffer is enabled by default on latest stable Debian and derivatives as well as on most other Linux releases as of time of writing.įramebuffer is also active on other RPM based distros (Fedora, CentOS, SuSE) etc. W3m-img doesn't rely on svgalib for displaying the pictures, but comes with its own written console image display & rendering library called w3mimgdisplay. On terminal emulator in X Window System environments and Linux W3m-img provides some utilities to support inline images for w3m Here is the description returned by apt-cache show w3m-imgĭebian:~# apt-cache show w3m-img|grep -i description -A 3ĭescription: inline image extension support utilities for w3m W3m-img is displays pictures in web over a plain console tty or in X terminals (mlterm, xterm etc.). Therefore while checking the available console browsers few days ago, I've stumbled on a text console w3m browser capable of displaying website with images in console called w3m-img. I'm one of all this guys prior mentioned, keen on console tty browsing. I'm sure there are plenty of this people who do most of their work in text console and use the X windows server in conjunction with mimalistic graphical environment like (DropBox, XFCE …) for the one and only reason to view pictures embedded in web pages. ![]() For this group of users having support for graphical browsing in console is also a must.įollowing my previous thoughts there should be many people who doesn't have a specific requirement for GUI programs but still use (mutt, ssh, vim, mpg321, zgv etc.). It is a well evident fact keyboard access to commands is always faster than mouse and GUI!īesides that, I'm convinced there should be many hard core geeks out there, who still can happily live without Macromedia Flash ads and Videos in Web. Hence I believe by having the opportunity to have almost fully functional text browsing in Linux cosnole / terminal many might choose not to bother with heavy resource consuming desktop browsers like Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera etc.Īnother good reason why you might want to use a console browser instead of its Desktop resource monsters, would be improved efficiency of work. Nowdays one of the reasons many people would decide not to use console for web is because they want to see pictures. A good review on 'em is in one of my previous post – Text mode console browsing with lynx, elinks, w3m and links text browsers …įor people dedicated to only use console and text mode console on their Personal Computer, simply installing and using this text browsers will not allow you to view any images tags in the html. Most of the people should be probably aware of the existence of lynx, elinks and w3m text browsers enabling the console geeks to browse or debug web pages in plain text mode.Īnyhow, for people who did not used one of the aforementioned browsers to text brose the net I warmly suggest you give them a try. Lately, I'm starting to use my tty consoles more and more.
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