Lynx Colors

# Change Lynx ui colors

I have been using [Lynx](https://lynx.browser.org/) for a good long while and there was always a
minor annoyance. The colors. I never thought to investigate how to
change the colors…until today.

Turns out that it is a pretty simple gadget. *[Lynx](https://lynx.browser.org/).lss* can be found
in `/etc` and this is where all the colors can be changed. Maybe you
are logged into a remote server, if so you'll need to copy that file
into your $HOME directory.

    cp /etc/lynx.lss $HOME/

After that there are two ways to make
[Lynx](https://lynx.browser.org/) use that file;

The *$LYNX<sub>LSS</sub>* environment variable

    export LYNX_LSS="$HOME/lynx.lss"

can be added to your *[shell]rc* file, in my case *.bashrc* like so

    echo "export LYNX_LSS=\"$HOME/lynx.lss\"" >> $HOME/.bashrc

which appends to the end of *.bashrc* or you could use the *-lss*
command line flag like so:

    lynx -lss=~/lynx.lss

But, since I am a *$HOME* prude, I like to drop these sorts of things
into my `$HOME/.config` and that looks like this:

    mkdir -p ~/.config/lynx && cp /etc/lynx.lss ~/.config/lynx
    echo "export LYNX_LSS=\"$HOME/.config/lynx/lynx.lss\"" >> $HOME/.bashrc

And, that works for me.

tags: bash lynx cli