[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Ncurses vs lynx problem resolution help sought [Was: Re: lynx-dev Status
From: |
Larry W. Virden |
Subject: |
Ncurses vs lynx problem resolution help sought [Was: Re: lynx-dev Status of lynx? |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 06:36:52 -0400 (EDT) |
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 16:29:30 -0400
From: Thomas Dickey <address@hidden>
>On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 07:30:14AM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote:
>> What I was expecting was color highliting for hyperlinks, headings, etc.
>> My terminal is, by default, a gray background with black letters.
>> The last 'successful' lynx build I had would continue to display a
>> gray background with normal text in black, with hyperlinks in blue,
>> italics in read, nothing special with bold, and the cursor position in red.
>>
>> What I get now is weird:
>>
>> Background is shown as black, text is displayed as grey background with
>> black letters, hyperlinks are shown as either white or grey underlined
>> text with black background, and the current cursor position is shown as
>> gray background and black letters. Text input fields are white underlined
>> black spaces.
>
>no - the pictures you showed didn't look like a problem with bce mismatch,
>and the tests I've run on Solaris 2.5.1 don't show any problems. It's
>possible that you have a $HOME/.terminfo directory confusing ncurses,
>but the usual symptom of that is lack of colors. I don't have an account
>on a Solaris past 2.6 (I think you said this was with Solaris 2.8), so
>I couldn't analyze it myself -- but running strace on the executable would
>provide at least enough info to see that it's getting the right terminfo
>entry loaded. If that's not the problem - a library mismatch is harder
>to analyze.
Refresher of my problem.
Most recent versions of lynx 2.8.4dev and ncurses 5.2.
Platform: SPARC Solaris 2.6
Sun compiler
lynx coloring not working right.
I can provide versions, etc. I'm working on building the latest
ncurses right now - will link against the latest lynx . But I don't
expect any differences.
--
Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem.
Larry W. Virden <mailto:address@hidden> <URL: http://www.purl.org/NET/lvirden/>
Even if explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should
be construed as representing my employer's opinions.
-><-
; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to address@hidden
[Prev in Thread] |
Current Thread |
[Next in Thread] |
- Ncurses vs lynx problem resolution help sought [Was: Re: lynx-dev Status of lynx?,
Larry W. Virden <=