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w3m is a text based web-browser which can be run in a terminal.

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How to fix missing / flickering images in w3m?

I use w3m to browse websites inside a shell, e.g. w3m https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Valued_images w3m supports displaying images the rendering seems buggy. They sometimes won't show at all, or will flicker when scrolling. This is an…
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Use real browser instead of w3m on SSH connections

I am using Ubuntu as desktop and server OS. When I am logged in to the server via ssh on terminal and have to view a web-page (localhost) on the server I use w3m (w3m localhost). Unfortunately w3m is not that easy to handle, as the page has some big…
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Not able to view images in w3m

I was playing around with w3m (command-line browser), and found that it was not able to display images when run from Terminator or gnome-terminal. But, when run from xterm, it is able to display images. I have both w3m and w3m-img packages…
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How to enable display of framebuffer images (e.g. in w3m, fbi) within byobu (pts)?

I'm trying to run a minimal Ubuntu 13.10 installation without X Window System on my old laptop. One of the most useful tools I rely on in this setup is byobu; however, it seems to prevent me from using applications capable of displaying images in…
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Image preview doesn't work in ranger

I have installed ranger file manager and rxvt-unicode terminal, and I want ranger to display previews of images in the terminal. I have also installed w3m, but I can't get images to preview. I think this is an issue for w3m, because when I load…
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Downloaded zip file using w3m on linux missing

I am working on a remote Ubuntu system. I want to download a zip file from the website mentioned below to the remote system. So, I used w3m to do so as I am accessing the remote system via command line. I ran the command: w3m…
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Getting text and links from a web page

I would like to have a script that downloads a web page with curl, pipes it to w3m, which is stripping it from all content except text and links. Is it possible to specify for the -T option of w3m, more than just one content-type and how? To…
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Copy paste inside w3m command line browser in ubuntu server

After browsing any link using w3m browser, that comes by default with Ubuntu server, I am not able to do copy paste content of webpage. I surf link using w3m After surfing link, I pressed Ctrl+Insert but did not find any any copy paste…
Rohini Choudhary
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How do I periodically reload a web page in a Terminal web browser?

How do I schedule the reloading of a page when using a terminal browser? using any of: Elinks, w3m etc
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How to create a CLI alias for a web search with W3M?

I would like to create an alias with the function to perform a DuckDuckGo search with W3M via the Command Line Interface (CLI). I have already created the alias and the DuckDuckGo search engine is called. However, I would also like to enter a search…
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How to write scripts for w3m or lynx?

How can I navigate (using TAB or hjkl keys) and click on things(ENTER), enter text with bash script in text based browsers like w3m and lynx? I said text based because when I go graphical, those browsers are going to shred my ram after a long…
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w3m doesn't show me images on Ubuntu. How to fix it?

I've updated apt and installed both w3m and w3m-img: $ 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…
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Cannot launch inkscape and w3m with same error message "Wrong __data_start/_end pair"

On Ubuntu 19.04 x86_64, I cannot launch inkscape due to the following error message. % inkscape Wrong __data_start/_end pair [1] XXXX abort inkscape The same issue arises with w3m. % w3m Wrong __data_start/_end pair [1] XXXX abort …
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w3m charset source_dump not working correctly

I am trying to use the following command but can't get the right output: $ w3m -dump_source google.com r���G��2�Ph��ү�f�� ����?�l���%Y:���c(�����������Y\��s8Ư| ��;����1ʹ��D��^�lK���٥r��\���Սk�V��Ϸv���{��r�����~s\��~?�ML7���¹���ƿ�qm��h��q�(��:wZ…
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How to output web page html source code into a file

My goal is to output an html source into a file, I'm using w3m to browse the web from terminal. When using the following command on terminal: w3m -dump the program displays the web site in a non interactive way, but no its html source. If you…
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