Re: terminal only for two weeks

On Thu, 29 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Nov 2024, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> 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).

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True.

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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).

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Certainly, in X it'll always be in a separate window.
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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.

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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

I did go back to play with elinks today, and it does seem like the text based browser that gets absolutely closest to what I need with the ability to auto save sessions.
I think that together wish frogfind.com I have found my temporary solution for the terminal! It is also trivial to migrate my open "reading tabs" from firefox to elinks by just doing a save all open tabs, and then massaging the exported bookmarks file a bit and then just open all of the sites from the command line. =)