From: Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> hmm - I think partly this is a case of differing expectations. The colorfgbg
> option is used to tell ncurses that it can get the actual values of foreground
> and background from $COLORTERM (which is set automatically by rxvt, but may be
> in your environment for some other reason). Normally lynx's background is set
> to "white" (actually gray since it's not bright). So the one on the right
> looks (hmm) normal to me with the out-of-the-box color scheme.
The one on the right is, in fact, what I am wanting to end up with after
building lynx....
> Your earlier picture showed some odd off/on color transitions which I don't see
> in this picture (good, so far). But that does look like dtterm (the titlebar
> and the shades of colors).
I assume that removing the widec and colorfgbg from the ncurses build resulted
in this - that's the only difference.
> Judging by the scrap of border in the window on the left, both have a gray
> default background, so the white-on-black in the window on the left is due to
> explicitly setting colors. The noticeable change I made for ncurses 5.2 was to
> introduce the assume_default_colors() function, which could be the problem area
> if the older lynx didn't have that version of ncurses, and your lynx.cfg was
> setting white-on-black, and if the configure script isn't recognizing that the
> newer ncurses has assume_default_colors(). That was related to this item for
> lynx:
>
> 2000-03-26 (2.8.3dev.23)
> * add ASSUMED_COLOR variable to lynx.cfg, making the use of
> assume_default_colors() optional (addresses reports by LV, IC) -TD
>
> So I'd look & see if the configure script didn't find assume_default_colors().
> If it didn't, and the function's there anyway, then lynx isn't compensating.
Here's what lynx's config.log says:
configure:12256: checking for assume_default_colors
(line 12258) testing assume_default_colors ...
configure:12288: cc -o conftest -g -Xc -I/projects/intranet/include -I/vol/lwv26
ldatae/include -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include -I../intl -I/project
s/intranet/include conftest.c -L/projects/intranet/lib -lssl -lcrypto -L/proje
cts/intranet/lib -L/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib
-R/projects/intranet/lib:/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.
6/lib -lz -lncurses -lnsl -lsocket 1>&5
configure:12256: checking for cbreak
(line 12258) testing cbreak ...
and here's what configure reported:
checking for assume_default_colors... yes
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