Re: lynx-dev Re: How do I get the background to be white instead of grey?

[Klaus Weide]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > > However, I cannot set the background to the purest white (or should that
> > > be brightwhite).
> > 
> > That's a fundamental limitation of PC character mode display hardware;
> > There are three bits each of foreground and background colour, 1 bit
> > of foreground intensity and one bit which can either be blink or 
> > underscore.  Note there is no background intensity bit.
> 
> I believe that slang for DOS uses the blink bit for intensity, hence
> the bright background when lynx is compiled with slang.

With or without the -blink option?

   -blink           force high intensity bg colors in color mode

(Only available if compiled with slang)

For me (talking about Unix-slang), this has the desired effect in rxvt.
In other environments, it either has no effect, or actually makes text
blink.

   Klaus