On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:54:51PM -0400, Seth Williamson wrote: > I moved to the country where I am lucky to have electricity, much less > Internet. I went from broadband to dial-up hell. > > Consequently, finding elinks has been a godsend. I am ability to use > the web at a decent speed at home. It is a magnificent product.
Thanks. I agree with you there. > I am baffled, however, by how to get a color display on a terminal. The > docs seem to be out of date. The Web site can point you towards The ELinks Manual in your favourite format (as long as it is HTML or PDF): http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/index.html > I am close to a total noob. I am using the newest version of Libranet, > a Debian distro, and did an apt-get install to get elinks. Or maybe it > was already here, I can't remember. What version of ELinks do you have? elinks --version or Help -> About within ELinks should tell you if the package manager doesn't. That might be helpful to know should you have questions or problems that aren't resolved below. > At any rate, if somebody could tell me, step by step, exactly what > settings I'm supposed to change in the elinks.conf file I would be > grateful. I found that in the /etc directory. I can't find a file > named features.conf anywhere. features.conf is a build-time configuration package. If you are using apt-get install, you are using a prebuilt binary package, in which case features.conf is irrelevant. The only reason you would need to modify features.conf is to enable 88- or 256-colour support; 16-colour support should always work with any ELinks package. To enable colours, go to Setup -> Terminal options (alt-s to open the Setup menu, arrow keys and enter or just the t key to select Terminal Options); in the resulting dialogue box, use the arrow keys to select 16 colors; press space to select that option; and finally, press the Enter key. The settings are not automatically saved: Use Setup -> Save options to save them for next time. If you want to do it the manual way, first you need to know what terminal you are using: enter 'echo $TERM' at the command prompt. Then add this line to elinks.conf while ELinks is not running, replacing <term> with the output of the 'echo $TERM' command: set terminal.<term>.colors = 1 If you want to waste some time, the Options Manager under the Setup menu gives you a basic interface to every option in ELinks; see http://elinks.or.cz/documentation/html/manual.html-chunked/ch03s04.html for instructions on using the hierarchical listbox it provides. > Also, is it still necessary to use xterm to get color? XTerm is not necessary. Colour should work on any VT100-compatible terminal, including the Linux or BSD consoles. Good luck, -- Miciah Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list [email protected] http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
