First, you must enable it in the feature.conf
file before compiling.
Second, you must run ELinks on a terminal that supports 256 colours:
—enable-256-color
.
Third, you must set the TERM
environmental variable to xterm-256color
before running ELinks.
Altho the Linux framebuffer supports 256 (or more) colours, the Linux console driver does not; therefore, console applications are still limited to 16 colours on the Linux console, framebuffer or not.