Elinks console/text based webbrowser
User information
ELinks is a program for browsing the web in text mode. The goal of the project has from the beginning been to provide a feature-rich text mode browser with an open patches/features inclusion policy and active development. One of these features is that ELinks includes Links-Lua which adds scripting capabilities to ELinks.
ELinks was forked from the original Links browser written by Mikulas Patocka. It is in no way associated with Twibright Labs and their Links version. Please read to the history page for more information about the various Links versions and forks.
http://elinks.or.cz/index.html
No dependencies.
An icon is placed in the Menu-->Internet directory to launch it. It opens in a console, either Xterm or RXVT depending on what you have installed.
Technical information
Compiled on Puppy Linux 4.3 with compile option --enable-256-colors. 256 colour mode does not work with RXVT nor Xterm, but it is there in the case it does work on other terminal emulators.
No dependencies other than a terminal. Lua support is not compiled in.
Source taken from page http://elinks.or.cz/download.html ( file http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-0.11.7.tar.bz2 ).
Codename Elated -=- elinks-0.11.7
Download
Attached to this post. No dependencies are required other than a terminal, of which there is at least one in every version of Puppy and puplets.
If there are no bugs encountered then can someone please put it on a Puppy FTP site.
EDIT: The 'trim' version has manpages and locales stripped. It is less than half the size, and only contains the executable, the menu entry and its icon. In other words is is equivalent to 'Trimming the fat'.
(PET) Elinks codename 'Elated' version 0.11.7
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How to configure and use Elinks
Elinks is a text-based web-browser. This means that it only displays text in one font and does not display images in web-pages, however allows you to open them externally by clicking on their link.
Using a browser such as Elinks is the fastest way in the world to browse the web. As primitive as it looks, Elinks has tab support ( middle-click links in web-pages ) and can work without the graphical system ( X11 ) running.
Step one - Open Elinks up
After installing the elinks pet ( trim or not ) open the program up. It is located in Menu-->Internet-->Elinks
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26002
By default Elinks now looks very ugly. You may want to resize the Window at this point so it is bigger.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26003
Step two - Open up the terminal options
For Elinks to be usable ( and look half-decent ) we need to enable colours.
Read the welcome message - it contains wise information to follow once you have finished these instructions.
Press OK on the welcome dialog ( you can use you mouse or the arrow and return keys ). You will now see a dialog asking you to input a web-page's URL, but for now just click on 'cancel'.
The Window will be white with a grey bar on the top and bottom of the Window. The top one is the menu-bar, and the bottom is the statusbar. To open the Menubar either click on it or press Escape once on your keyboard. From here either click or navigate with the arrow keys to the following menu entry called 'Terminal Options'.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26004
We need to check the box labeled '16 colors' and de-tick the box labeled 'transparency'.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26005
Xterm and RXVT for Puppy do not support 26-colour mode, so it is unfortunately not an option. Transparency is just whether or not Elinks draws the background behind pages properly. Unless you have a see-through background for your terminal this just forces all pages to have a white background. In future pets I will fix this by telling xterm to use a black background.
Now press save. A confirmation dialog will now come up. Press OK here and then 'Apply' on the settings dialog.
Step three - Use Elinks
Press 'G' on your keyboard and then type a URL in ( such as www.google.com.au or www.murga-linux.com ) and press enter. You're rolling!
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26006
Common problems
Elinks is a text-based web-browser. This means that it only displays text in one font and does not display images in web-pages, however allows you to open them externally by clicking on their link.
Using a browser such as Elinks is the fastest way in the world to browse the web. As primitive as it looks, Elinks has tab support ( middle-click links in web-pages ) and can work without the graphical system ( X11 ) running.
Step one - Open Elinks up
After installing the elinks pet ( trim or not ) open the program up. It is located in Menu-->Internet-->Elinks
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26002
By default Elinks now looks very ugly. You may want to resize the Window at this point so it is bigger.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26003
Step two - Open up the terminal options
For Elinks to be usable ( and look half-decent ) we need to enable colours.
Read the welcome message - it contains wise information to follow once you have finished these instructions.
Press OK on the welcome dialog ( you can use you mouse or the arrow and return keys ). You will now see a dialog asking you to input a web-page's URL, but for now just click on 'cancel'.
The Window will be white with a grey bar on the top and bottom of the Window. The top one is the menu-bar, and the bottom is the statusbar. To open the Menubar either click on it or press Escape once on your keyboard. From here either click or navigate with the arrow keys to the following menu entry called 'Terminal Options'.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26004
We need to check the box labeled '16 colors' and de-tick the box labeled 'transparency'.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26005
Xterm and RXVT for Puppy do not support 26-colour mode, so it is unfortunately not an option. Transparency is just whether or not Elinks draws the background behind pages properly. Unless you have a see-through background for your terminal this just forces all pages to have a white background. In future pets I will fix this by telling xterm to use a black background.
Now press save. A confirmation dialog will now come up. Press OK here and then 'Apply' on the settings dialog.
Step three - Use Elinks
Press 'G' on your keyboard and then type a URL in ( such as www.google.com.au or www.murga-linux.com ) and press enter. You're rolling!
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... h&id=26006
Common problems
- Q: AAAAH! The background of pages still stays white!
A: Elinks has three ways of viewing pages which you can switch between by press '%' on your keyboard ( Shift+5 ).
The default mode is trying to replicate the page as close as possible, including a white background. The next mode is the same minus the white ( recommended ) and the third is style override. Here the background is always black, the text always white and the links always blue no matter what. - Q: I can't type things into boxes, such as the search box for google.
A: You either need to double-click the text-input box or select it and press enter to start typing inside it. Pressing enter then will bring a Window up asking if you wish to (post) send the information to the site (google).
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