Re: lynx-dev what to do with stubborn terminal emulators?

[dickey]

> 
> 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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