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w3m does not display images in terminals with a 32 bits color depth

#72 w3m does not display images in terminals with a 32 bits color depth

Milestone: Unstable (example)

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2015-12-20

Created: 2015-10-23

Private: No

It seems that w3m is not able to display images in terminals wich have a color depth of 32 bits (like urxvt).

Steps to reproduce:

Run w3m in a terminal wich support a color depth of 32 bits:
for urxvt add the string URxvt.depth:32 to the file Xresources, and reload it using xrdb
start a new instance of urxvt
run w3m in the new instance of urxvt
Try to display some images (for example search something in google images)

There is also a discussion on the github page of ranger, in wich the issue is described:
https://github.com/hut/ranger/issues/86

And here there is also a patch that seems to solve the issue:
https://gist.github.com/BwackNinja/60a344730170f9ce2163

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