Message-ID: <6748cfd1@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: terminal only for two weeks Newsgroups: comp.misc References: <67447ce1$0$22$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <6c4ae24b-7bb8-7d84-8f74-1f5fc14c0ec0@example.net> <87ed2yjkl8.fsf@tilde.institute> <55db8483-58f0-c3dc-de0b-7f44881fa180@example.net> <67464333@news.ausics.net> <674784c0@news.ausics.net> <65301869-e646-a303-2eac-40c90bb7c02f@example.net> User-Agent: tin/2.0.1-20111224 ("Achenvoir") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 29 Nov 2024 06:17:21 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 42 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Bytes: 2661 D wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> D wrote: >>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >>>> D wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, yeti wrote: >>>>>> I use Elinks, Emacs/EWW and W3m, but none of them can replace the scary >>>>>> fullfat browsers. They seem to just fit Smolweb stuff (FTP, Gemini, >>>>>> Gopher and similar). >>>>> >>>>> True. >>>> >>>> I like seeing useful images, so prefer Dillo and Links (the latter >>>> does support display via the framebuffer so you can run it >>>> graphically without X). >>> >>> For some reason, I never managed to get the framebuffer to work. Have no >>> idea why. =( I would like to get it to work though. >> >> I guess the framebuffer is working for the console, otherwise it >> will probably be a low-res BIOS character display like in DOS. So >> either a permissions problem or do you know that you need to start >> Links with the "-g" option? > > Ahh... ok, that might explain it. If it is console only, then it might not > work in my terminal emulator, and -g just opens a window in X. Certainly, in X it'll always be in a separate window. > I would have liked for it to shows images in the terminal, but maybe I > need to find another terminal emulator for that to work? I think I use the > default one that comes with xfce. W3m displays images in XTerm and other terminal emulators, so that might be what you want for a browser. I'm not sure if there's a list of terminal emulators that support image display from it. This page mentions that some require changes to the configuration: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/W3m -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#