Guake does not display images when w3m-img is installed

[bonkmaykrQ]

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Describe the bug

Guake does not display images when w3m-img is installed

Expected behavior

Google Logo appears

Actual behavior

Text only

To Reproduce

Install w3m and w3m-img through your package manager, then run w3m google.com in both Guake and another terminal (Konsole in this case)

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Please run $ guake --support, and paste the results here. Don't put backticks (`) around it! The output already contains Markdown formatting. And make sure you run the command OUTSIDE the Guake.

$ guake --support

Guake Version: 3.6.3

Vte Version: 0.60.3

Vte Runtime Version: 0.60.3

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GTK+ Version: 3.24.20

GDK Backend: GdkX11.X11Display

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Desktop Session: plasma

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Display: :0

RGBA visual: True

Composited: True

• Monitor: 0 - DEL HDMI-0
  • Geometry: 1920 x 1080 at 0, 0
  • Size: 509 x 286 mm²
  • Primary: True
  • Refresh rate: 60.00 Hz
  • Subpixel layout: unknown

[Davidy22]

Did some cursory research, figured out that $WINDOWID needs to be set for this to work. Both gnome-terminal and guake had this issue on my machine, and finding window id with xwininfo and running that through a hex-dec converter then setting it to $WINDOWID fixed the issue completely on gnome-terminal, rendered weirdly and in the wrong place with guake though. Can look further into this, although I did notice some other maintainers of other terminals talking about the implementation being a bit hacky, which inclines me to rather hope for w3m to adopt sixel rendering which we should inherit by default with VTE.

[sci-42ver]

I tried ranger by guake , however , I failed .
According to this issue comment

does guake support Kitty's image protocol or SIXEL?

• if so ,what should I config ?

• If not, I hope this feature can be added if it is possible .

[Davidy22]

By default, Guake should inherit support for sixels as Guake uses VTE, which implements sixel support.

[iconoclasthero]

Umm, where do things stand with this? readthedocs is incomplete and the website is down so...