uzbl. A browser that adheres to the unix philosophy.

lordmetroid · 2010-01-17 13:51:03

I installed uzbl-core and liked it, then I installed uzbl-browser and did not like it. So I tried to remove uzbl-browser but even though I executed pacman using "pacman -Rns uzbl-browser", uzbl-core still launches the uzbl-browser.

EDIT: I removed every instance of uzbl from my system manually using rm -Rf on all things locate found of uzbl. Maybe someone should take a look at the uzbl-browser package so uzbl-browser it actually is removed when one expect it to.

Last edited by lordmetroid (2010-01-17 13:59:01)

hatten · 2010-01-21 14:42:25

I have a few problems, neither http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/embedde … EMBED.html nor http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm plays any sound for me, it just keeps dumping the mp3's to ~, I know i could probably make an ugly scripts that plays and deletes the files as soon as they are dumped to ~, but there must be a better way.

When I run uzbl from crontab, with

58 7,11,15,19   * * *   amixer set Master off ; export DISPLAY=:0 && uzbl-browser http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm

the launched uzbl acts weird. I cannot use fl for example, and have to use my mouse. Why is that? Should i use a different command?

d2ogch3n · 2010-01-23 20:30:00

Hi
been trying out uzbl-browser and like it a lot, I would like to use the tabbed version but launching it from a terminal results in constantly repeating lines of

uzbl-tabbed: error: parse_command: unknown command 'EVENT [35651587_01] COMMAND_EXECUTED print title 1 ArchWiki'
uzbl-tabbed: error: parse_command: unknown command 'EVENT [35651587_01] COMMAND_EXECUTED print uri 1 http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page'

if anyone has any idea, I'd be grateful

tydell · 2010-01-24 08:03:19

It's normal output in console. At the moment uzbl_tabbed works ok but keyboard shortcuts for uzbl_tabbed don't work at the moment, shortcuts from uzbl-browsers work ok

hatten · 2010-01-24 17:35:21

hatten wrote:

I have a few problems, neither http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/embedde … EMBED.html nor http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm plays any sound for me, it just keeps dumping the mp3's to ~, I know i could probably make an ugly scripts that plays and deletes the files as soon as they are dumped to ~, but there must be a better way.
When I run uzbl from crontab, with
58 7,11,15,19   * * *   amixer set Master off ; export DISPLAY=:0 && uzbl-browser http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm
the launched uzbl acts weird. I cannot use fl for example, and have to use my mouse. Why is that? Should i use a different command?

Bump, I'm unsure if it's a bug, can anyone confirm either of them?

d2ogch3n · 2010-01-25 00:58:41

@tydell - thanks for clearing that up, I'll use uzbl-browser for now

hatten · 2010-01-28 19:47:28

hatten wrote:

hatten wrote:
I have a few problems, neither http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/embedde … EMBED.html nor http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm plays any sound for me, it just keeps dumping the mp3's to ~, I know i could probably make an ugly scripts that plays and deletes the files as soon as they are dumped to ~, but there must be a better way.
When I run uzbl from crontab, with
58 7,11,15,19   * * *   amixer set Master off ; export DISPLAY=:0 && uzbl-browser http://trypolyphasic.com/alarm
the launched uzbl acts weird. I cannot use fl for example, and have to use my mouse. Why is that? Should i use a different command?
Bump, I'm unsure if it's a bug, can anyone confirm either of them?

For the love of god, can a single person in this world using uzbl read this post and say either "that doesn't work for me either, a bug" or "you mistyped XX" or anything? Or simply whine at me for bumping this post twice!

gogi-goji · 2010-01-28 21:02:22

I don't have any ideas about your first issue. I can confirm that trying to play sound files results in them being dumped in my home directory, and no sound actually being played. I'm unsure if this is intended or not, since I do not know enough about uzbl (I just started using it a few days ago).

I believe that not being able to follow links with fl is intentional, at least for the moment. http://www.uzbl.org/news.php?id=22 A nasty security bug allowed shell commands to be run from malicious sites, which could turn particularly nasty. They don't know how to fix it and keep functionality yet, so the feature has been disabled, resulting in the follow link and scroll percentage features being disabled. So fl not working is not a bug, it is the result of closing a huge security hole, and should be reenabled sometime in the future.

hatten · 2010-01-28 21:35:34

I can normally use fl, it may probably be because i use

@cbind  fl*  = script @scripts_dir/follow_numbers_customizable.js %s

as found on the wiki for following. I know it's a bit unsafe but I don't care about that. It may be some error in that linkfollower, but as it's not supposed to be used at all I'll put it on hold until it's supposed to be working =p

skanky · 2010-01-28 22:45:51

The sound "issue" is probably not an issue as such. Don't other browsers just download a file to tmp and then call the associated application with the pathname to the temp file? As they do it "under the hood" or with some pre-configured apps (or using the environment associations), it's not that obvious. Some may pipe directly to an associated app, but I'm not sure.

So, what would be needed IIUIC is to download a file, work out what it is, and pass it to a specified application. If you have a mime association somewhere (say, a mailcap file might work), it might be possible to use that, or you could set-up an uzbl specific one.

Actually getting uzbl to do it will be in the configuration and will require a script of some sort - though I haven't done any real configuration yet, so don't know how to do this myself. You could though, maybe hook into whatever link select (click, whatever) event is and and check the target link extension against a list of configured ones. Some applications will be able to take the URL as input, rather than the url itself.

Hope this is useful (and correct).

Last edited by skanky (2010-01-28 22:46:16)

akuschki · 2010-01-29 10:51:44

I installed uzbl-git from aur and can't figure out how to do anything. I start up uzbl-browser and I verified that it reads the config file in ~/.config/uzbl. I can click links and scroll with the mouse, but no matter which key I press (with mod key or without), nothing happens. When I press any lower case key it is displayed in the lower right corner, but nothing happens, so after some keypresse, the lower right corner looks like this:
[] [abcdefggggarr<span > </span>] http://www.google.com/intl/de/ 35651587

I know I am probably just being stupid but I just can't figure out what to do. Any help appreciated.

skanky · 2010-01-29 11:22:40

If you're in command mode you need to type in "bound" key sequences. Try "o www.archlinux.org" and "gg tacos" for example.
If you want to type in a form then you can either (a) click in a field and start typing or (b) if the cursor is already in a field, type "i" then start typing. To get back to command mode, type ESC.

These are a few of the defaults (look at the "bind" commands in the config file for more - and use it to define your own.

HTH.

akuschki · 2010-01-29 14:47:38

hi skanky, thanks for the quick reply.
yeah I did look at the default key bindings in $HOME/.config/uzbl and I verified the file is sourced by uzbl-browser. none of the default key bindings seem to work. no matter if I click into the form field or whether I press ESC to go into command mode and then try o www.archlinux.org, all that happens is that any key I press is added to the status bar display. see the picture below:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1142077/2010-01 … _scrot.png

skanky · 2010-01-29 15:07:02

Okay, sorry, I misunderstood your first post. Not sure what the issue is then as it sounds like there is no config file being sourced - which you have checked. You've also checked that it's uzbl-browser that's being used, not core, which I would have suggested.

Did you upgrade or was it a fresh install? The config did change considerably with a recent(ish) update, but I still had some stuff work with the old one, before I updated it.

Either way, it might be worth copying the example config over your local one again - in case there was an error in it that broke it.

hatten · 2010-01-29 15:30:40

copy the example files from /usr/path/to/uzbl to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME. I bet there's an howto out there but I cannot seem to find it atm.

akuschki · 2010-01-29 16:04:47

copied the example files - no change. deleted uzbl-git and config files, tried to reinstall uzbl-git - compile failed. the comment by securitybreach , 06 Dec 2009 on the aur page http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25972 sounds just like my problem.

akuschki · 2010-01-29 16:07:14

installed uzbl-browser from community and it works. I guess something is fishy with the git version, does nobody else have any problems?

skanky · 2010-01-29 20:49:26

akuschki wrote:

installed uzbl-browser from community and it works. I guess something is fishy with the git version, does nobody else have any problems?

Just checked on my home machine and I'm running uzbl-git 20091205-1 with no problems.

Lexion · 2010-02-14 15:38:08

I just installed uzbl, but I can't use it because whenever I type in keycmds, it puts "<span > </span>" after them. i.e.

o www.google.com<span > </span>

And it won't run the commands. Also, backspace and esc don't work.

borrell · 2010-02-15 00:32:45

akuschki wrote:

installed uzbl-browser from community and it works. I guess something is fishy with the git version, does nobody else have any problems?

Double check you have python installed

tvale · 2010-02-16 00:24:16

I recall follow links in a new window isn't back yet. Is it going to? I think it's the only reason keeping me in vimperator.

Lexion · 2010-02-16 16:53:54

Sorry, my bad. I was using an old config file for a new version.

aeosynth · 2010-02-17 02:45:53

I just started using uzbl-tabbed, how do I make tabs load in the background?

edit: ah, I just found it - set switch_to_new_tabs = 0.
If I could delete this post I would -_-;

Last edited by aeosynth (2010-02-17 03:07:33)

aeosynth · 2010-02-17 09:24:37

Ok, for reals now:

How do I let middle clicks pass through to the browser? Let's look at http://w3schools.com/jsref/tryit.asp?fi … nmousedown. In Firefox, middle-clicking the image pops up an alert box; in uzbl, nothing happens. If I comment out my middle-click mouse binding, then middle-clicking the image gives me a red <Button2> notice in the status bar, but still no alert box.

Also, a bug with the default config: each config reload adds entries to the right-click menu.

I'm using uzbl-tabbed 2010.02.02-1

tydell · 2010-02-17 18:18:22

I have to say Have similar problem like others

tydell@myhost ~ % uzbl-browser 
{'cookie_jar': '/home/tydell/.local/share/uzbl/cookies.txt',
 'cookie_socket': '/home/tydell/.cache/uzbl/cookie_daemon_socket',
 'cookie_whitelist': '/home/tydell/.config/uzbl/cookie_whitelist',
 'daemon_mode': True,
 'daemon_timeout': 0,
 'use_whitelist': False,
 'verbose': True}
uzbl-cookie-daemon: detected daemon listening on '/home/tydell/.cache/uzbl/cookie_daemon_socket'
uzbl-event-manager: will auto close.
uzbl-event-manager: found pid file: '/home/tydell/.cache/uzbl/event_daemon.pid'
uzbl-event-manager: event daemon already started with pid: 4970
Exception occured while executing script:
At line 3: ReferenceError: Can't find variable: Uzbl

I removed uzbl and any configs and other files, installed uzbl again, copied example config into right place but keybindings don't work
Any ideas what to do else with this ?

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