Inline images in w3m on XFCE Terminal

adam at theadamcooper.com adam at theadamcooper.com
Sun May 16 01:56:04 CEST 2021


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 aur/vte3-git seems to be really outdated at least for the PKGBUILD, so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


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