display images inline in xterm (while using mutt)

[Patrick Shanahan]

* mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 13:04]:
> Hi, 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> On Friday, December 4, 2020, 11:57:52 AM CST, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote: 
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> * mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 12:45]:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks again!
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 11:13:03 AM CST, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote:  * mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 11:44]:> 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Thanks very much!
> > > 
> > > > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 10:24:44 AM CST, Patrick Shanahan <paka at opensuse.org> wrote:  * mutt users list <mutt-users at mutt.org> [12-04-20 11:07]:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks! 
> > > > 
> > > >  > On Friday, December 4, 2020, 9:56:23 AM CST, Dave Woodfall <dave at tty1.uk> wrote: 
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> > > > >>  On 04/12/20 05:30, Mutt Users <mutt-users at mutt.org> put forth the proposition:
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >> If I use w3m -o ext_image_viewer=0 test.png, I can get the file test.png inside xterm. I wanted to do the same on my mutt window (inside xterm). How do I do this?
> > > > >> I tried putting:
> > > > >> image/*;w3m -o ext_imageviewer=0 %s; copious output
> > > > >> However this does not work and gives me the options of w3m in the mutt window. How can I use this?
> > > 
> > > snipped
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> > > > I didn't have it installed, but test installed and get same result. removed it and following works w/o it, but w3m must be configured to display graphical.  I will have to look to see where, don't remember, too old, been too long.
> > > 
> > > > for me:  w3m display.jpg will display image display.jpg
> > > 
> > > > ok found it
> > > >     Display embedded graphics
> > > >     $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE http://w3m.sourceforge.net
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> > > >      ~/.w3m/config
> > > >      user defined configuration file; overrides /etc/w3m/config
> > >                                           
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> > > My apologies, I do not understand. Where do I put this? In my mailcap? FWIW, I tried:
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> > > $ w3m -o auto_image=TRUE test.png
> > > 
> > > and that opens gpicview for me. 
> > > 
> > > I copied over the system config /etc/w3m/config to /.w3m/config
> > > 
> > > and added 
> > > ext_image_viewer=0
> > > 
> > > and then I get the inline images. However, how to do this inside mutt does not seem to work.
> > > 
> > > I have the following in my .mailcap:
> > > 
> > > auto_view image/*
> > > image/*;w3m %s; copiousoutput
> > > 
> > > But what i get is a bunch of text for the image file that I am trying to display.
> > > 
> > > Thanks in advance again!
> > 
> > 
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> > > I have:
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> > > text/html; w3m -dump -v -F -T text/html %s; nametemplate=%s.html; needsterminal
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> > 
> > And what do you do for inline display of images? Btw, I have to say that w3m works pretty well on most of the stuff sent  by html. I wonder if I could make it the default display for e-mails that come in html.
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> > I don't use w3m, that is not w3m's intended usage use something to display images, such as:
>   image/jpg;/usr/bin/display --auto-orient %s
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> But this does not display inline, inside the terminal. I was trying to get that to work. Sorry.

no, you would need to replace /usr/bin/display with something like "fbi"
which will work if you have framebuffer enabled.

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