Best i understand you need to use a xterm derived terminal for this to work, because the sub-program used by w3m for this draws over the terminal window to make things happen.
One more thing we can kiss bye bye with Wayland i guess.
One more thing we can kiss bye bye with Wayland i guess.
I've been using Alacritty myself for a couple of weeks now. It's not too bad: the htop header bar won't render properly and catting random binary files crashes the terminal pretty quickly, but it's smooth and does everything a good "tmux VM" should do well.
I understand iterm2 on macOS is a significantly improved experience?
Note however that there exist effort towards moving the tty into user space. And one leading figure in that is currently involved with systemd.
So i suspect it will happen, it is just a question of when...
Their claim that only mosh is like this, still present on their WWW site, is not in fact true now.
I say "largely" because there are a couple of other nasty escape sequences, like (for example) OSC sequences to set window titles and terminal names, that binary files can also accidentally contain and that therefore have to be disabled. Removing ISO 2022 makes the problem far less likely to be hit, but doesn't quite eliminate it entirely.