Which browser +msn client for console?

patrickdepingui · 04-05-2003, 10:10 AM

Hi,

I'm running slackware linux on a 486, only in console mode.

I installed links as a browser that came with Slackware. Is it possible to get graphics to work? Now every image is replaced by [IMG]

Or maybe, do you know another console browser that is able to view graphics?

Further on, is there any MSN Messenger that is able to run in console mode?

And does anyone know a good site where some console programs are listed?

Thanks a lot,
Patrick de Pinguin

trickykid · 04-05-2003, 06:14 PM

Well I believe the images in a text based browser is not gonna happen anytime soon. Its the whole purpose of a text based browser, to only display text. But even then, you'd need X installed or some kind of framebuffer to display images in CLI only.

About the CLI msn client, your actually in luck as there is one. ITs a bit out of date I do believe and not updated any longer but its called LMME. Works kind of like IRC but thru MSN that is.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmme

Aussie · 04-05-2003, 06:24 PM

I use pebrot for console msn.

duaux · 07-27-2003, 05:51 PM

hi aussie.

i was wondering how do i install pebrot?

there is no ./configure file so im assuming it is precompiled?

any comments appreciated.

thanks

btymrick · 08-11-2003, 11:51 PM

I'm pretty sure you can just run it:

./pebrot

that worked for me anyways... although you have to edit a conf file first, but I belive it will tell you the location of that file if you run the above

duaux · 08-17-2003, 04:07 AM

ya that worked fine.

just a bin file, must have python 2+ installed.

andrewlkho · 08-17-2003, 12:58 PM

personally, if you're looking for a console msn client, I prefer to use centericq. It has support for msn, icq, aim, and possibly others. And, as trickykid says, graphics in text-only is not going to happen...

stickman · 08-17-2003, 04:15 PM

w3m on my SuSE system displays graphics in an aterm, but I've never tried it on the console. It might be an experiment for another night though...

andrewlkho · 08-18-2003, 12:12 AM

crikey...just installed the latest version of w3m. Gave me a shock when I ran it in xterm to google: showed the google image! Although that's only if I compiled with image support. However, in console mode this would definitely not work, it's only because it was pre-compiled with support for X. patrickdepingui wanted a *console-mode* browser with image support, and that's not gonna happen

duaux · 08-18-2003, 02:18 AM

ho_10

centericq is nice...

thx for the recommendation

Doom · 11-20-2003, 11:30 AM

@linux:~/pebrot-0.8.2> ./pebrot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./pebrot", line 4, in ?
import pebrot
File "./pebrot.py", line 10, in ?
import curses.ascii
ImportError: No module named curses.ascii

Im on Suse and i've python 2.2 installed...what's problem then?