uzbl. A browser that adheres to the unix philosophy.

awayand · 2009-12-02 10:51:08

I am close to going crazy, I installed uzbl-git using yaourt, but when I launch it, it opens a window and then immediately exits...

bl1nk · 2009-12-02 11:18:23

awayand wrote:

I am close to going crazy, I installed uzbl-git using yaourt, but when I launch it, it opens a window and then immediately exits...

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 00#p653800

awayand · 2009-12-02 11:36:18

bl1nk you are telling me I should recompile enchant and it will work?

gotmor · 2009-12-02 16:04:00

awayand wrote:

bl1nk you are telling me I should recompile enchant and it will work?

Yes, that's what he's trying to tell you.

Recompile it with '--disable-zemberek'.

milomouse · 2009-12-03 04:19:10

I'm sorry but there's a lot to read in this topic, page-by-page, so I'm just gonna ask: is there a "filler" or "spacer" for the Uzbl statusbar? I'm trying to get something to be "right-aligned" at the edge of the browser window. Looked on the wiki and read the installed README (and other docs) but didn't see anything about it. Just wondering. No big deal if it doesn't.

Dieter@be · 2009-12-03 14:50:11

milomouse wrote:

I'm sorry but there's a lot to read in this topic, page-by-page, so I'm just gonna ask: is there a "filler" or "spacer" for the Uzbl statusbar? I'm trying to get something to be "right-aligned" at the edge of the browser window. Looked on the wiki and read the installed README (and other docs) but didn't see anything about it. Just wondering. No big deal if it doesn't.

right aligning is not possible. pango markup doesn't support it and all other ways (multiple gtk labels) gets ugly.

brisbin33 · 2009-12-03 15:23:09

OK, i have one 'im-a-dumb-user-please-hold-my-hand' thing when it comes to browsers.

Often times i'll be on a forum or bugtracker, enter a comment and leave the page up. come back later and hit refresh to see if anyone has replied...

on some forums/trackers (not here) hitting refresh will resend my comment and it'll get added twice. In most modern browsers (ff or gc) you get a warning... "you're about to resend data, resend or cancel?"

has anyone been able to reproduce this functionality in uzbl? i know it's a bit against the philosophy so i don't mind having to add a script or config line myself, but i could really use it. also, maybe i'm missing some other simple solution.

riivo · 2009-12-03 18:05:13

brisbin33, click on a link which takes you again to the same page. Then you can refresh it without this behaviour.

Nepherte · 2009-12-03 19:42:37

Nepherte wrote:

I've got a quick question: When I want to type a url, the url usually contains a '.' or a '/'. To get these keys in my keyboard layout, I have to use my shift key + another key to get them. The shift key however is considered as some modifier so instead of a '.' or a '/', I get '<Shift>.' and '<Shift>/'. How do I get the specified behavior?

I'm gonna bump this as it may have been lost among the other posts.

BetterLeftUnsaid · 2009-12-03 20:12:22

Nepherte wrote:

Nepherte wrote:
I've got a quick question: When I want to type a url, the url usually contains a '.' or a '/'. To get these keys in my keyboard layout, I have to use my shift key + another key to get them. The shift key however is considered as some modifier so instead of a '.' or a '/', I get '<Shift>.' and '<Shift>/'. How do I get the specified behavior?
I'm gonna bump this as it may have been lost among the other posts.

I had this same problem when using an old config with a new uzbl release. However, deleting my config and letting uzbl-browser create the default config seemed to fixed everything. So I assume there was a config change, but I have yet to look into it.

Nepherte · 2009-12-03 20:14:13

BetterLeftUnsaid wrote:

Nepherte wrote:
Nepherte wrote:
I've got a quick question: When I want to type a url, the url usually contains a '.' or a '/'. To get these keys in my keyboard layout, I have to use my shift key + another key to get them. The shift key however is considered as some modifier so instead of a '.' or a '/', I get '<Shift>.' and '<Shift>/'. How do I get the specified behavior?
I'm gonna bump this as it may have been lost among the other posts.
I had this same problem when using an old config with a new uzbl release. However, deleting my config and letting uzbl-browser create the default config seemed to fixed everything. So I assume there was a config change, but I have yet to look into it.

I'm using a small modified default config file. I could post it if necessary.

brisbin33 · 2009-12-03 20:19:30

riivo wrote:

brisbin33, click on a link which takes you again to the same page. Then you can refresh it without this behaviour.

yes, this is my current workaround. but i would really like the popup as in other browsers. the root of it all is my forgetfulness, i don't always remember to click an inbound link if i've sent data and plan on refreshing.

i'm thinking i can handle the refresh event manually, check if data's being /sent/ then just popup a zenity for confirmation... maybe some day...

mason.larobina · 2009-12-04 06:54:44

Nepherte wrote:

BetterLeftUnsaid wrote:
Nepherte wrote:
I'm gonna bump this as it may have been lost among the other posts.
I had this same problem when using an old config with a new uzbl release. However, deleting my config and letting uzbl-browser create the default config seemed to fixed everything. So I assume there was a config change, but I have yet to look into it.
I'm using a small modified default config file. I could post it if necessary.

No need. You are missing the IGNORE_KEY configuration event (and depending on how recent your version of uzbl is you are likely also missing the MODKEY_ADDITION event).

In the aliasing section (if you have one) chuck in:

# request IGNORE_KEY <glob>
set ignore_key     = request IGNORE_KEY
# request MODKEY_ADDITION <key1> <key2> <keyn> <result>
set modkey_addition = request MODKEY_ADDITION

Then add the following to your modmapping section (if you have one):

#modkey_addition <Key1>  <Key2>    <Result>
@modkey_addition <Shift> <Ctrl>    <Meta>
@modkey_addition <Shift> <Tab>     <Shift-Tab>

#ignore_key <glob>
@ignore_key <ISO_*>
@ignore_key <Shift>

Last edited by mason.larobina (2009-12-04 06:59:30)

mason.larobina · 2009-12-04 06:56:54

Edit: How do I delete a post?

Last edited by mason.larobina (2009-12-04 06:58:41)

Nepherte · 2009-12-04 10:37:15

Thx, that worked!

hatten · 2009-12-04 16:04:31

mason.larobina wrote:

Edit: How do I delete a post?

haha, did you just do a brisbin33? xP

How do i remove that when i browse to a new page where the "mouse-focus" is in a search bar, meaning that when i browse there uzbl starts in insert mode.

If you click in a text area, you enter insert mode, but not when you fl there, why is it so? And is it possible that when you have fl'd a button or text area that doesn't change page, that the "command-area" is cleared so that you don't have to delete it to select another thing? I know it's just a keypress, but it's an unneeded keypress.

Uzbl is the best!

brisbin33 · 2009-12-04 16:10:08

hatten wrote:

haha, did you just do a brisbin33? xP

hatten wrote:

How do i remove that when i browse to a new page where the "mouse-focus" is in a search bar, meaning that when i browse there uzbl starts in insert mode.

i think that is a result of this in the config:

# Generate a FORM_ACTIVE event if an editable
# element on the loaded site has initial focus
@on_event   LOAD_FINISH    js if(document.activeElement.type == 'text') {Uzbl.run("event FORM_ACTIVE");}

# Switch to insert mode if a (editable) html form is clicked
@on_event   FORM_ACTIVE    @set_mode insert

commenting out those pieces should stop the behavior.

Last edited by brisbin33 (2009-12-04 16:11:17)

hatten · 2009-12-04 18:35:05

Perfect, thanks. And the best thing is that the cursor is still in the textbox so you only need to press i to start typing in it. Thanks!

skualito · 2009-12-06 21:18:23

Hi
Thanks for a fantastic browser. I found the way to embed uzbl-browser in tabbed (it's on AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31715) but the problem is that the window title is then displaying "uzbl-core", so having several tabs with this same title is not very useful. Anyone knows how to change this behaviour? I have zero knowledge/skill in programming language, so I'm a bit stuck on this one.

wottam · 2009-12-06 21:52:38

@skualito: why don't you just use uzbl-tabbed?

skualito · 2009-12-06 21:57:08

wottam wrote:

@skualito: why don't you just use uzbl-tabbed?

The keybindings are not working for me, i also saw there's a bug report for that issue. It may be trivial to fix but I don't have the skills to do it.
Also I'm curious so i wanted to give a try to 'tabbed'.

EDIT: Well, I didn't see for some reason that the fix was provided on the bug page
Using uzbl-tabbed now.

Last edited by skualito (2009-12-07 12:51:12)

Neheb · 2009-12-08 21:24:45

just gave uzbl-browser a quick try, and I am definetively giving it a go over christmas when I actually have some spare time.

mason.larobina · 2009-12-13 20:32:41

I've just finished working on two little pet projects.

The first is mode binding for uzbl (upgraded bind plugin) which I'm hoping we will all move to. I'm only being held up on a good example config that utilizes these changes (I was testing with this cut down config http://dpaste.com/hold/132897/ it shows what's possible but its hardly complete). I could use some suggestions if anybody has a knack for config writing. We could also benefit from having multiple example configs in the uzbl project (I.e. an example vim-like config and example emacs-like config as a Rosetta-stone for new uzbl users). By all accounts I haven't screwed anything up with my changes and I've added legacy support for the old BIND event so nothing breaks when upgrading.

You can find the changes here: http://github.com/mason-larobina/uzbl/tree/mode-binds

The second project I've been working on is a shell-like braces expansion which has a couple of use cases.

set expand = event BRACES_EXPAND

# Execute multiple commands that only vary by a few characters easily in one line
@expand @bind {<Ctrl>,}o<uri:>_ = uri %s
# Which expands into two bind commands:
#   @bind <Ctrl>o<uri:>_ = uri %s
#   @bind o<uri:>_ = uri %s

# As an alternate to the chain command.
@bind x = @expand {uri http://google.com/, set mode = insert, set progress_format = 100%, js clearAllHints();}
# When x is pressed 4 commands are sent to uzbl:
#   uri http://google.com
#   set mode = insert
#   set progress_format = 100%
#   js clearAllHints();

# Ignore all your keys in one line:
@ignore_keys {<Shift>, <ISO_*>, ...} 

# Showing off 
@expand print {1,2,3}.{1,2,3}.{1,2,3}.{1,2,3}
@expand print \{This, expansion, is, escaped\} and {this, isn't} and {I, only\, expand\, twice}

And so on.

You can try it out here: http://github.com/mason-larobina/uzbl/t … -expansion

Testing and feedback is appreciated,

Enjoy.

gotmor · 2009-12-17 21:46:29

Hey,

so here is yet another another experimental idea and basic implementation:
http://github.com/robm/uzbl/tree/child-win

Basically this provides a second web window within uzbl which can be manipulated in various
ways and is able to communicate with the main window (e.g. useful for opening links from one
window in the other).

Demo screencast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-qsgzebUs0

Screenshot:

Comments welcome.

Btw, the default config holds some examples, give them a look.

Rob.

Duologic · 2009-12-17 22:01:05

gotmor wrote:

...
Basically this provides a second web window within uzbl which can be manipulated in various
ways and is able to communicate with the main window (e.g. useful for opening links from one
window in the other).
...

I don't want to break down this idea, but shouldn't that be handled by the window manager instead of uzbl?
At least I do that with my window manager. (Same issue as with tabbed, I guess.)

Arch Linux

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