Error when trying to display an image in the terminal

[nnWhisperer]

Hello, I want to view an image in xterm, for reasons below. To display an image inside a terminal, I tried several options and none of them worked. Do you have suggestions?

1. using fim: ioctl VT_GETSTATE: Inappropriate ioctl for device (not a linux console?) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
2. using feh: feh ERROR: Can't open X display. It is running, yeah?
3. using w3m-img: black screen saying "Hit any key to quit w3m:".

Reason I want to use xterm to display an image is, that image is updated by another process, hence I want to display image by updating it periodically, like with using the "watch $cmd" command that runs a command periodically. But first, I need to manage to display an image in terminal. Thank you

[popcornylu]

Hi @nnWhisperer

1. Put your image in the /content folder

   Example:

   curl -o img.png https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
   

2. Find your image in the FILES in the sidebar and open it.

[nnWhisperer]

It doesn't update dynamically; !curl -o img.png https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png !curl -o img.png https://www.pngall.com/wp-content/uploads/8/Sample-PNG-Image.png The displayed img.png image isn't updated.

[popcornylu]

Sorry, non-terminal functionality is not something that colab-xterm is designed to handle. You may need to look for other Colab plugins that can address this issue.

[Kreijstal]

@popcornylu Please reconsider https://github.com/jerch/xterm-addon-image You can use sixel protocol try timg or lsix https://github.com/hzeller/timg