Inline images in w3m on XFCE Terminal

[Adam Cooper]

On Sat May 15, 2021 at 7:56 PM EDT,  wrote:
> May 15, 2021 7:37 PM, "Silvio Knizek" <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
> > I checked the current vte3 source code and lo and behold: the current
> > git version has actual SIXEL support, which can be used to render
> > images directly in the terminal [1].
> > So what you can try is to build your own vte3 with added `-Dsixel=true`
> > and than recompile xfce4-terminal to make sure everything is clean
> > linked. Than install aur/libsixel and call w3m with the `-sixel`
> > parameter.
> > aur/vte3-git seems to be really outdated at least for the PKGBUILD, so
> > your best bet would be to adjust the extra/vte3 PKGBUILD.
>
> Thank you! I will try this and report my findings.
> —Adam

Just to close the circle here, I did try this approach, but it didn't
work for me. I ended up switching to XTerm. A more determined and expert
user might be able to get this approach working. —Adam