Console HTML view with picture using W3M or other

[David J. J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello Tavis,

I love that name! It reminds me of beautiful music, or is it the Ormandy last name.

I cannot find an "av" package what Jude suggested.

You, Tavis, mentioned adding to mailcap this line:

image/png; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal

I'm guessing - and I realize that's gotten me into the deep fryer more than once... that you can make more lines in mailcap based on that line for 
different picture formats -- stop me if you hear hot oil bubbling and David screaming...

image/jpg; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal
image/jpeg; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal
image/gif; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal

I find a package called "libsixel" in Slackware and I'm installing that.

Thanks and say "Hello to Eugene Ormandy" he was a great favorite of a friend of mine who was born in Budapest.

Best regards,
David Ring


  Tavis Ormandy wrote:
Sun, Aug 01, 2021 at 10:58:37PM -0000

> On 2021-08-01, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > * Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com> [07-31-21 23:34]:
> >> If memory serves, w3m can use av package if installed to allow it to view
> >> pictures.  I've only read about this never having been able to look at
> >> pictures.
> >> On Sat, 31 Jul 2021, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> >> > Has anyone succesfully configured mutt to give a roughly equivalent
> >> > view of html emails using w3m or other
> >> > browser in text console with direct-fb or other?
> > w3m is configuragle to display images, "auto_image=TRUE"
> 
> Not exactly what was asked, but I use this mailcap to view image
> attachments:
> 
> image/png; img2sixel -- %s | less -r; nametemplate=%s.png; needsterminal
> 
> It uses the sixel support in xterm (or any other terminal that supports
> sixels) to display images in the terminal. I think you just need
> something like this in .Xresources to enable it in xterm:
> 
> XTerm*decTerminalID: vt382
> 
> Tavis.
> 
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