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From: Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Google image for the day
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 02:39:21 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 00:18:57 -0000 (UTC)
not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote:
> Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:47:48 -0000 (UTC)
> > Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 11:31:43 +0000
> >> Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> >> > I see a cracker with "2021" written on it, the animation then bursts open to 
> >> > reveal a big "2022" maybe you have javascript disabled?
> >> 
> >> Ah yes , I get it now. It's not a javascript issue but I was accessing Google
> >> with a text browser which opens a separate application for displaying images
> >> and that does not show the animation in GIFs .I should have figured it out
> >> myself.
> > 
> > And in order for the thread not to be a total waste of time here's how you
> > can see a GIF animation with GIMP : you open the menu "Filters" , choose
> > "Animation" and then "Playback". You can even step frame by frame.
> 
> The "animate" program which is part of ImageMagick might be more
> easily launched from a text web browser. I use it sometimes when

Ah yes , I knew that there was some ImageMagick programme which would do the
job but I didn't know which and I couldn't be bothered to search through the
plethora of programmes in the suite to locate the correct one. I did try
display <image>   and saw the original image but then got a weird result
which I can't even describe.

> browsing in Dillo, which also just shows still frames from a GIF
> animation. Though the clunky process of manually saving to file
> and then opening separately with "animate" isn't usually worth the
> reward.

Doesn't  dillo  offer a way to automate this ? I use  w3m  which supports a
~/.w3m/mailcap   file although the location is configurable. This has for
example a line

image/gif;	feh '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" ; description=GIF Image; nametemplate=%s.gif

If I change in the above   feh   to   animate , I expect it will work. So
by pressing the appropriate key  w3m  saves the image in a temporary file
and opens it with the application you specify.

I do note that it's annoying that  w3m  does not use by default  ~/.mailcap
and it took me a while until I figured out how to get  w3m  to use the
mailcap  file that I wanted. But it does support them.

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