Re: Images on ttys

[Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:15:06 -0400 Mark Plaksin wrote:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>>
>>> Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> w3m in xterm and rvxt displays images.
>>>
>>> It's a hack.  It requires access to the widget tree of the terminal
>>> emulator it is running in, figuring out the right widget where to put
>>> the images (that's why it works only on terminal emulators it knows
>>> about).  And of course, it needs to have access to the X server in the
>>> first place.
>>
>> Is it possible to do it right?  Is anybody working on it?
>>
>> As an end user it's a pretty exciting idea.
>
> If you have an X server already running and want look at images inside
> emacs, why do you run it in a terminal emulator?

I run Emacs on my desktop at work and connect to it (via multi-tty) when
I'm at home.  Displaying an X frame at home over SSH + DSL is too slow
so I use a tty.