Inline images in w3m on XFCE Terminal

[Silvio Knizek]

Am Samstag, dem 15.05.2021 um 15:17 -0400 schrieb Adam Cooper:
> Has anyone succeeded in getting images to display in the w3m browser on
> XFCE Terminal? My research has turned up no XFCE-Terminal-specific
> information. Next steps for me are (1) building w3m from source and (2)
> switching to XTerm (which I know to work). But I thought I'd reach out
> on here first. (I'm running Arch Linux, although I don't think that
> matters.) Thanks!
>
> Adam
> adam at theadamcooper.com

Hi Adam,

as far as I can see the problem here lies within the fact, that there
is a race condition between w3mimgdisplay drawing the image directly in
x11 (ignoring any terminal) and xfce4-terminal refreshing the window
[1].
So as long as there is no inbuild option in xfce4-terminal (and in
vte3) to render images directly in the terminal, I don't think you can
use xfce4-terminal with w3m to display images.

BR
Silvio

[1]
https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1021#issuecomment-359184981