Re: Image handling in mutt

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 08 Dec 2023 at 11:56:12 (-0500), Paul M Foster wrote:
> 
> I'm on Debian bookworm, using neomutt for email. Where there is an image to
> view, viewing it in neomutt calls up one of the ImageMagick programs. I've set
> the mailcap_path variable in my neomutt config to point to ~/.mailcap, and
> set an entry in there for image/jpg to point to /usr/bin/feh. I've even set
                                  ↑↑↑ try jpeg

> the "display" alternative to feh with update-alternatives. Still, mutt is
> calling an imagemagick program to display jpgs.
> 
> First, if alternatives doesn't point to the imagemagick program, and the
> mailcap file doesn't point to it, and there's nothing in the neomutt config
> pointing to the imagemagick program, then where the heck is it getting that
> as the program to use to display images?
> 
> Second, how do I fix this so that mutt uses feh to display images?

Cheers,
David.