Re: [elinks-users] color schemes
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 07:49:27AM EDT, Jonas Fonseca wrote: > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Jun 02, 2006: [..] > > What you are toggling with '%' is this option: > > document.colors.use_document_colors (default: 2) > > Use colors specified in document: > 0: is use always the default settings > 1: is use document colors if available, except background > 2: is use document colors, including background. This can mostly > look very impressive, but some sites will appear really ugly. > Note, that obviously if the background is not black, it will > break the behaviour of transparency. > I need to read the doc again. Now I remember reading this and it makes more sense now that I have used elinks on a regular basis. Not that the above is unclear.. Just that I had too much on my plate and the penny didn't drop.. > > In mozilla for instance I have access to a palette of ~70 colors that I > > can use to colorize the different text components on a web page - such > > as make unvisited links some shade of blue.. visited links some shade > > of red etc. > > You can change the color of active, unvisited, visited, and bookmarked > links. Also to some limitations, you can color individual elements using > a user-specific .css file. .. and you can actually set hex #rrggbb colors..! I wonder how elinks determines the closest xterm-256 match. I changed the "visited links" default - was yellow in my setup.. very visible on a dark background but practically invisible on a light one. > > > Elinks appears to have a different philosophy. Apart from the "%" > > that lets you switch between three pre-established color schemes I > > didn't find anything in the menus that would let you change colors > > on the fly - when text is not very legible for instance, such as a > > light grey on a white background for instance.. > > I advice you to change the default document colors when using the > 256-color mode. More specifically changing the Text color so that the > default text and background color is both "black" will give you a much > better default contrast. .. was looking in the wrong place. :-( I changed the defaults as you recommend - one was set to grey75 and now I have changed it to black, it makes all the difference. Now very few pages switch automatically from option 2 above (use document colors) to the "reverse video" rendering with a dark background. Thanks much for the tip..! Why do some pages still switch to this rendering? Sometimes elinks actually seems to hesitate .. briefly flashing a black background (I am on an xterm with "-bg black") and eventually comes up with the "document colors".. usually dark text & a light background.. and sometimes it does not. Interestingly some sites are rendered with "islands" of dark-colored text on a light background and the rest of the page is black. In my case, the European Yahoo! sites are rendered correctly while the American ones - US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina.. have are not. No big deal anyway. Looking forward to being able to spend more time tinkering with the program's customization and seriously reading the doc. I've switched 99% to elinks from mozilla and the occasional problem site (javascript mostly..) is really nothing compared with everything I have gained in the bargain.. Heck, I was spending more time waiting for pages to render than actually browsing. Great product..! Thanks, cga ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] Copy link location
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 02:33:35PM +0100, thus spake Thomas Adam: > On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:07:29PM +, Nikos Apostolakis wrote: > > Is there a ``copy link location'' function in elinks? I mean a > > function that copies the url of a link to the x-clipboard (when elinks > > is running under X of course). > > http://edulinux.homeunix.org/elinks/ > > See the 'URI-passing' section. Thanks, it works great. Nikos > > -- Thomas Adam > -- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever. --George Orwell, 1984 ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] Copy link location
On Sat, Jun 03, 2006 at 01:07:29PM +, Nikos Apostolakis wrote: > Hi, > > probably I missed something obvious but I did look in the docs and I > did a web search and could not find the answer to the following: > > Is there a ``copy link location'' function in elinks? I mean a > function that copies the url of a link to the x-clipboard (when elinks > is running under X of course). http://edulinux.homeunix.org/elinks/ See the 'URI-passing' section. -- Thomas Adam -- "If I were a witch's hat, sitting on her head like a paraffin stove, I'd fly away and be a bat." -- Incredible String Band. ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
[elinks-users] Copy link location
Hi, probably I missed something obvious but I did look in the docs and I did a web search and could not find the answer to the following: Is there a ``copy link location'' function in elinks? I mean a function that copies the url of a link to the x-clipboard (when elinks is running under X of course). Thanks, Nikos -- If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever. --George Orwell, 1984 ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] color schemes
cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Jun 02, 2006: > I run elinks on a 256-capable xterm. > > I have found that you can toggle three color schemes via the % keyboard > action - this is apparently meant to improve readability for certain web > pages/sites. > > The default color scheme in my setup has a light background and appears > to do its best to render pages as closely as possible to what the page > specifies. > > If I press % I have access to two more color schemes with a dark > background. The main difference between these two appears to be that > one uses only the 8/16 basic colors while the other uses the extended > color capabilities of the underlying xterm (?) > > Are these aspects documented? What you are toggling with '%' is this option: document.colors.use_document_colors (default: 2) Use colors specified in document: 0: is use always the default settings 1: is use document colors if available, except background 2: is use document colors, including background. This can mostly look very impressive, but some sites will appear really ugly. Note, that obviously if the background is not black, it will break the behaviour of transparency. > In mozilla for instance I have access to a palette of ~70 colors that I > can use to colorize the different text components on a web page - such > as make unvisited links some shade of blue.. visited links some shade > of red etc. You can change the color of active, unvisited, visited, and bookmarked links. Also to some limitations, you can color individual elements using a user-specific .css file. > Elinks appears to have a different philosophy. Apart from > the "%" that lets you switch between three pre-established color > schemes I didn't find anything in the menus that would let you change > colors on the fly - when text is not very legible for instance, such as > a light grey on a white background for instance.. I advice you to change the default document colors when using the 256-color mode. More specifically changing the Text color so that the default text and background color is both "black" will give you a much better default contrast. > I am aware of the color.html test page that comes with the package but > that only confirmed my suspicion that I might not be using all the > capabilities of Elinks's enhanced color mode. > > Apologies for the vagueness of my questions.. Any pointers welcome. -- Jonas Fonseca ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] using telnet:// protocol
Jean-Yves Levesque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Fri, Jun 02, 2006: > Is it possible when we use the telnet protocol to > launch in another tab or another xterm to have the > window close on leaving telnet and not go back to > a screen window ? In the option manager under: Protocols :: User protocols :: telnet, you should be able to edit what command ELinks runs when following a telnet link. So you should be able to atleast launch a new xterm. -- Jonas Fonseca ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
