w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?

Question

I've updated apt and installed w3m and w3m-both:

$ apt install w3m-img
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
w3m is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1).
w3m-img is already the newest version (0.5.3-36build1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 31 not upgraded.

$ which w3m            
/usr/bin/w3m

$ which w3mimgdisplay
w3mimgdisplay not found

$ which w3m-img                         
w3m-img not found

$ ls -la /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay                          
-rwxr-sr-x 1 root video 26640 Feb  5  2018 /usr/lib/w3m/w3mimgdisplay

When I call: w3m https://google.com I don't see any images. How to fix it? I tried it in Tilix and in gnome-terminal.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 09 '20 at 07:41

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First of all w3m-img package provides

inline image extension support utilities for w3m

so it does not have separate executable.

Then visit web-site with inline images like

w3m http://w3m.sourceforge.net

and you will get something like

Note: it may not work on text TTY (Ctrl+Alt+F1) inside VirtualBox - I have seen this problem.

answered Jun 09 '20 at 07:41

N0rbert

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I use Tilix as a terminal. Could this be a root of the problem? – JavaRunner Jun 09 '20 at 08:57
Also I tried gnome-terminal. Images don't show in both cases. – JavaRunner Jun 09 '20 at 09:00
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For me Tilix and GNOME Terminal do not work. But I see that it works with `xterm`, `mate-terminal`, `konsole` and plain dumb tty. – N0rbert Jun 09 '20 at 14:23
This worked for me on st with [w3m patch](https://st.suckless.org/patches/w3m/) – Hritik Oct 23 '21 at 11:20

w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?

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