How do I make my terminal display graphical pictures?

mike_plumbs

This is a quick mockup I copy and pasted together. I imagine this being super cool and useful. Does something like this exist already?

Originally asked by Dennkster on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Update 2021-03-02 Viu Viu is an image viewer that can display images using either the kitty, iterm, or libsixel approach. It also has a fallback mode to display blocky ascii images. Update 2018-12-31 kitty icat The all around terrific terminal emulator kitty has an icat command to display images (does not work within tmux). Kitty also enables image previews within ranger (a terminal file manager), which is the method I currently use the most often (works within tmux). 1. w3m While the main purpose of w3m is to provide in-console web browsing, it can also be used to view images in terminal. The relevant packages to install are w3m and w3m-img (on Ubuntu at least). You then need to disable...

Full answer by joelostblom: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/698064 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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