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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: cast-fish on February 10, 2014, 07:00:48 PM

Title: Links
Post by: cast-fish on February 10, 2014, 07:00:48 PM

Hello, just to mention that an overlooked browser for me has been  "links" with graphics support
links -g  (never even knew it's existence for years)

This browser seems to have "ssl" and allow many popular web sites to run well. It works good on old hardware
and seems very very fast. It can do downloading and other such things.

There may, on occassion be some slight missdomeaner such as "www.ebay.com" glitches but these can often
only be slight and a rememedy is easy.

It is so low on resources so you can have it running for common-place web browsing while, at the same time, using another browser for flash and extended things.


just thought it's worth mentioning.

V

Title: Re: Links
Post by: cast-fish on February 10, 2014, 08:15:41 PM

i moved onto "elinks" and just wondered how to increase the font size?  thanks.

Title: Re: Links
Post by: tinypoodle on February 10, 2014, 08:51:49 PM

Supposed your terminal emulator is aterm, in ~/.Xdefaults something like

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aterm*font:*-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-130-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
You can experiment with the value  ;)

Title: Re: Links
Post by: cast-fish on February 10, 2014, 09:05:30 PM

Hello

that worked and the font went slightly larger


is it possible to make the font "type"  different?.....for example  "Arial"

thanks

V

Title: Re: Links
Post by: tinypoodle on February 10, 2014, 09:43:23 PM

You would have to look into how to install/select fonts for your terminal.
elinks - as well as links when in text mode - will just display fonts of terminal they run on.

If arial is a true type font as I suspect, then it will probably not be suitable for aterm.

Title: Re: Links
Post by: cast-fish on February 11, 2014, 02:22:02 PM

hello, ok thanks.

It seems that each of elinks and links have strong points and weak ones.

My links, in text, mode does not support mice "wheel" and such, out of the box.

The "elinks" does not support images, it seems! (so there is no graphics idea such as what you get with  links by using "links -g"

In reality, they are fine as fast usable web browsers once you have mouse working. Yes,
you will get incompatability with some web pages, but many popular web pages seem to work ok.


For me, the fact that they are so much faster than other web browsers is worth any minimal gremlins that
pop up with web sites. (mostly)

Vin

Title: Re: Links
Post by: tinypoodle on February 11, 2014, 05:18:45 PM

Actually you can directly execute:

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aterm -fn *-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-130-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 -e elinksavoiding globally interfering with .Xdefaults  ;)

Title: Re: Links
Post by: tinypoodle on February 11, 2014, 07:39:34 PM

Quote from: cast-fish on February 11, 2014, 02:22:02 PM

The "elinks" does not support images, it seems! (so there is no graphics idea such as what you get with  links by using "links -g"

When you press "*" image links will be displayed with placeholders [IMG] and images can be displayed by external viewer (e.g. flpicsee).

OTOH, I find use of links2 as image viewer on framebuffer console quite handy.

Title: Re: Links
Post by: cast-fish on February 11, 2014, 08:05:18 PM

thanks

how do you toggle the  mouse on elinks?....

it was working fine but somehow stopped

Vince

Title: Re: Links
Post by: tinypoodle on February 11, 2014, 10:40:25 PM

I wouldn't be aware of an option to toggle mouse.

Mouse control usually works fine with me with aterm, even when running elinks remotely over ssh.
It does not work on a VT unless running as root, I suspect that might be a permission issue related to gpm.