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Re: lynx-dev what to do with stubborn terminal emulators?
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev what to do with stubborn terminal emulators? |
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Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:16:06 -0500 (EST) |
>
> When I use my mac and ntsa telnet emulator, I get a very pleasant color
> interface that is a joy to use.
>
> When however I use my sparc solaris 2.6 and the cde dtwm , I get an
> annoying behavior. My default dtwm has a grey background. When I run
> lynx, I get the colors I expect, but the rest of the 'background'
> that lynx draws is white rather than the grey my terminal expects.
is that using dtterm? I thought you would be using --enable-default-colors
for that. (Actually, if you _don't_ do that, and op is using the 37/40
codes, you'll get behaviour like you're reporting -- you'd have to use the
39/49 codes to get default colors of gray).
> This is how I am configuring lynx.
>
> $PWD/configure --prefix=/projects/intranet \
> --libdir=/projects/intranet/lib/lynx \
> --includedir=/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include \
> --with-screen=ncurses \
> --with-included-gettext \
> --with-catgets \
> --with-zlib \
> --enable-extended-dtd \
> --enable-externs \
> --enable-forms-options \
> --enable-nls \
> --enable-nsl-fork \
> --enable-partial \
> --enable-persistent-cookies \
> --enable-debug
>
> Is there a flag I should be adding, or removing, so that the ncurses/lynx
> that I am building doesn't try to reset the background of the screen
> to white but rather leaves it the way I want it?
> --
> Larry W. Virden <URL: mailto:address@hidden>
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