Questions tagged [w3m]
w3m is a free software/open source text-based web browser. It has support for tables, frames, SSL connections, color and inline images on suitable terminals. Generally, it renders pages in a form as true to their original layout as possible.
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in w3m the lines on some webpages don't fit (practically any) terminal window
For instance on this page (archive) the text extends to infinity, w3m doesn't wrap the lines at all for unknown reasons. lynx in comparison isn't affected.
I can only read by scrolling the affected ...
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Pipe current w3m buffer into new neomutt email
I am a very satisfied user of w3m and neomutt, both as separate applications, and with w3m being the default viewer for html emails within neomutt.
One aspect that has remained elusive for me however ...
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w3m website dump without line break
I am not a native english speaker, if any grammatical mistakes please forgive me
every one says books are best friend and remove ignorance, so I got a online library but my english is not good, so i ...
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terminal: Error occurred while reset 800b: errno=25
I have an extremely bizarre problem, occurring somewhere at the intersection of terminal, su, w3m and /dev/null:
when I su - from user1 to user2, following command does not work:
$ w3m zz.html 2>/...
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How to get around 403 errors on websites with text-based browsers?
The issue seems to stem from a misconfigured web server and has affected some domains I've came across in lynx and w3m, but links can access at least in some instances. Can this be resolved on the ...
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Raspbian running headless doing scripted procedures on a internet page using text browser
I am somewhere between a new and intermediate linux user.
I am setting up a local network for a small group, and I need to configure an automatic sign-in to a webportal when internet connectivity is ...
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Alacritty Ranger w3m: Images are not showing or disappear after few seconds
I am using Alacritty and ranger. I have also installed w3m.
This is part of my ~/.config/ranger/rc.conf:
set preview_images true
set preview_images_method w3m
set w3m_offset 0
Most of the time images ...
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Downloading file using command line tool in Linux VM which requires sign-in
Environment: Linux VM which I have access only through command line console.
Goal:
I need to download the file: https://download.nlm.nih.gov/umls/kss/2020AA/umls-2020AA-full.zip
Unlike typical ...
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How to turn off images in w3m
I would like to know how to turn OFF images in w3m. I installed w3m images so that i could view images in the cli program ranger. But I would prefer to turn this off for w3m.
I would have thought ...
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Does w3m support input type="file" form fields?
I am trying to figure out a simple way to submit a file stored on a distant Ubuntu server to an HTML form on the web. The form uses <input type="file"> field. This seems to be not supported by ...
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curl wget - How to ignore the HTML Tag and headers [duplicate]
How to get only the content for web page what I see in browser... I don't want the headers and any HTML tag.. exp- http://www.linfo.org/cat.html.. I want only the content.. Please help
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How I can configure w3m to use squid proxy (or any proxy) by default when invoked by a specific user?
Can I configure w3m to use Squid by default when invoked by a specific user in a bash login shell?
I've looked inside the w3m configuration file, but I don't see any setting were I can set squid as ...
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How to pipe html into w3m?
In this post is shown how to pipe curl output to lynx. How can get the same with w3m?
I mean something like:
curl https://www.google.it | w3m
I do not want to use a temporary file.
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How to display inline images in a terminal that update on scroll with w3mimgdisplay
The w3mimgdisplay program displays images in buffered terminal emulators. This is how: http://blog.z3bra.org/2014/01/images-in-terminal.html . But it is not very well documented. As pointed out in the ...
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w3m specify http port
When using w3m terminal browser, how can I specify the http/s port that I want to use when connecting to a web server.
There does not seem to be a -p option to use non-standard ports (80 & 443). ...
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Using mpv ASCII output with w3m
mpv is a video player that can output ASCII video (like mplayer2 and vlc, but with colors). I would like to use it with w3m, within w3m or showing a link to open it in another window using mpv.
For ...
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Mutt : render html within mutt [closed]
I want to render html within mutt but I haven't succeed configuring it yet.
I want to use w3m so my .mailcap looks like :
text/html; "$BROWSER" %s &; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; needsterminal;
text/...
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Jump to Link In W3M
The browser w3m has an option to turn on link numbers.
o > 'Display link numbers'
I would like to be able to jump to a particular link by number, i.e. jump to link number 10 by some key shortcut ...
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How can I open links from w3m in firefox? [closed]
I'd like to open links from w3m in Firefox. I've followed the instructions here (and here), but cannot get it working.
I've also tried a few other permutations in the external browser field of the ...
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Can w3m automatically search the entered text?
Is there a way to configure w3m so that with 'U', i.e. after entering text into the URL field, the browser will automatically prepend "google.com/search?q=" to it?
Or can some other command ...
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split accents in w3m
I am trying to use w3m to view html email (via mutt). Currently, accented characters (represented as HTML entities in the source, using a console and console font that supports accents) are rendered ...
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Is there a way to change w3m's colour theme?
Recently I've made something in my .bashrc so that I can inquiry unknown words online easily with my bash without open a browser.
I chose w3m as my agent utility, the problem is, its default color ...
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Grab http requests by lynx
I need to grab and debug all HTTP-requests and responds which I make from lynx or another text-based browser. How can I save all request URLs, redirects, headers and page sources for analyze and debug ...
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ranger image-preview with transparent terminal background
I like the image-preview in ranger, but I also like my terminal transparent.
Is there really no way to get the image-preview work with w3m and transparent background?
(I'm willing to change my ...
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How to get colours on man pages with w3m as a PAGER?
Is it possible, and if so how, to have colour/bold/italic characters in man pages while using w3m?
Another pager (most) does have some limited colour support but is not as versatile as w3m. I know ...
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w3m displays inline images in konsole, but not yakuake
I've tested this on two different systems (with TERM set to xterm-256color) and got the same result. Nothing in the config files seems relevant.
Is there a major difference in these terminal ...
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Is it possible to bind '2M' to a single key in w3m?
Pressing M in w3m launches the 1st external browser, 2M the second. While it is easy to bind the built-in command EXTERN to another key, is it possible to bind the second to another key?
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Yanking URLs in w3m
I have been using w3m for a couple of weeks and am convinced that it is my preferred text browser - with one exception.
Is there any way to yank URLs to the clipboard without using the mouse?
I have ...
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Is there a back-"button" in w3m?
Does w3m offer a keyboard shortcut to go back one page? I couldn't find anything in the man pages.
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