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I think there's a version of elinks (or one of the other text based browsers) that can display images if you are running on a framebuffer console

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Not only that but there are tons of image viewer, video viewer, pdf viewer etc application for framebuffer (for linux). But this begs the question whether framebuffer can be considered "terminal". Also, to me it's still perfectly "terminal", if you use X and run a terminal emulator and live inside it unless you need to see a image, video or pdf. To me, the answer to this question is "yes".

The only problem with the framebuffer is that it adds a perceptible delay vs using a "raw" TTY. It's a small delay, perhaps a few ms, and I guess most people can't notice it, but it can be distracting if you live on the terminal.

You can actually see it if you cat a big file to the screen.

Framebuffer isn't an issue. Framebuffer and Javascript, however, is. You can opt to skip websites with that, but a lot on the WWW depends on it.

There's a solution to that though: running Firefox in the terminal with brow.sh [1]

[1] https://www.brow.sh

http://links.twibright.com/ This fork/version of Links has a fully graphical mode, which works in both X and the framebuffer.

w3m can also display images using the framebuffer, with the rest of it still in text mode.

Netsurf can be compiled for framebuffer, and that variant can also be used in X (and imo is much easier to get compiling than the GTK UI).

w3m-img?

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