<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>How can I get 256 colors?</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The ELinks Manual"><link rel="up" href="ch02.html" title="Chapter 2. Frequently Asked Questions"><link rel="prev" href="ch02s07.html" title="What are the Ki (kibi) and Mi (mebi) units?"><link rel="next" href="ch02s09.html" title="What User-Agent header does ELinks send?"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">How can I get 256 colors?</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s07.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 2. Frequently Asked Questions</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s09.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="get-256-colours"></a>How can I get 256 colors?</h2></div></div></div><p>First, you must enable it in the <code class="literal">feature.conf</code> file before compiling.</p><p>Second, you must run ELinks on a terminal that supports 256 colours:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li> <a href="http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.html" target="_top">Thomas Dickey's XTerm</a>, revision 111. XTerm must be compiled with <code class="literal">--enable-256-color</code>. </li><li> Recent versions of <a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/" target="_top">PuTTY</a>. </li></ul></div><p>Third, you must set the <code class="literal">TERM</code> environmental variable to <code class="literal">xterm-256color</code> before running ELinks.</p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Only 16 colors on The Linux console</h3><p>Although the Linux frame-buffer supports 256 (or more) colors, the Linux console driver does not; therefore, console applications are still limited to 16 colors on the Linux console, frame-buffer or not.</p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch02s07.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="ch02.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch02s09.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">What are the Ki (kibi) and Mi (mebi) units? </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> What User-Agent header does ELinks send?</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
