Comments on: uzbl – a terminal for the web – in gentoo :) http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed wired's /dev/urandom space Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Roland Orre http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-57573 Roland Orre Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:36:48 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-57573 Even though uzbl seemed great I had a lot of struggle before getting emacs keys working.
The one I installed had gtk3 and webkit2 enabled and with that configuration it simply didn’t work, although the key theme settings in gtk-3.0 are not very well documented… There is a file
/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css
which I tried to include from either ~/.gtkrc-3.0 or .config/gtk-3.0 but no success.
Now I’ve got it working by setting ENABLE_GTK3=no in Makefile
This is based upon a snapshot I did Aug 22 2012 by doing
git clone https://github.com/Dieterbe/uzbl.git

It seems as gtk-3.0 is not very mature yet. I found some info here though
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116451
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/unstable/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings–gtk-key-theme-name
but none of these worked, I even copied
/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css
to
/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css
but this didn’t help either. Also regarding the internal editing within uzbl they could have used standard readline instead of implementing their own line editor. For instance kill-to-end-of-line and yank (which I use tremendously often wasn’t implemented, although good excercise to implement…) and the editing doesn’t work very well yet, but there is potentials…
Also, there is a very annoying error message which I can not get rid of
Exception occured while executing script:
At /usr/local/share/uzbl/examples/data/scripts/follow.js:16: ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: uzbl

Regarding gtk-3.0 I found some more info here, but it’s not very clear how to get editing keys working with GTK3.0
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.0/GtkCssProvider.html#GtkCssProvider.implemented-interfaces
Some simple example is needed!

I find it strange that essential stuff for efficient work like defining one’s editing keys in a consistent way is so hard to do
but less essential stuff like setting backgrounds and color styles is aimed a lot of effort … :(

I wish that all key handling on the system could be handled by a simple ~/.inputrc
which could be respected by all key editing applications whether you run gtk, qt, motif or whatever.
I love the key settings in fluxbox, that is the simplest and easiest configuration I’ve seen.

]]> By: Lilly http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-3095 Lilly Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:53:55 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-3095 Try Konqueror. It has customizable keybindings.

]]> By: Amy http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-2547 Amy Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:42:38 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-2547 Try blocking ads via /etc/hosts or use a filtering proxy (at the cost of slower HTTP) like privoxy or squid.

]]> By: Latest Buzz » Garnet Nuggets http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-2043 Latest Buzz » Garnet Nuggets Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:28:47 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-2043 [...] uzbl – a terminal for the web – in gentoo | Linux~ized [...]

]]> By: mansour http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 mansour Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:27:50 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-1114 I noticed the current uzbl ebuild requires >=dev-libs/glib-2.21.3. Do you think it would be possible to bump that down to version 2.20.5 (the glib version used on gentoo-hardened)?

]]> By: Erik http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1014 Erik Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:55:20 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-1014 Try Konqueror. It has customizable keybindings.

]]> By: r5d http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1002 r5d Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:46:23 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-1002 Try blocking ads via /etc/hosts or use a filtering proxy (at the cost of slower HTTP) like privoxy or squid.

]]> By: marcusw http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-977 marcusw Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:52:24 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-977 This post introduced me uzbl, and more importantly, to tiling window managers. I love uzbl-browser, it runs great on my single-core Pentium 4 2.00Ghz with 256Mb of RAM, circa 2000. It took a while to get used to, but I figured out how the config file works and am now happier with it than I was with FF (The only downside is that the banner ads are back. AdBlock Plus FTW!).

I am now using xmonage as my wm and it is great. I have been a fan of minimalistic stuff for quite a while now, but this thing takes the cake: I though it had crashed the first time I started it because all I saw was a black screen. It turns out that that is the desktop…there isn’t even a task bar! FREEDOM!!!

]]> By: Nick White http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-941 Nick White Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:29:40 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-941 I’m really happy this made it into the tree – I’d been using the live ebuild from the devnull tree, but it’s so fast-moving that it was tricky to keep up with, I’m much happier to stick to snapshots.

I’d prefer if you didn’t depend on xclip, though. I use xsel, and have no need or desire for it. Could you perhaps move it to the helpers useflag? Or its own?

Thanks, again, I’m very happy you’re packaging this :-)

]]> By: Tom Gillespie http://www.linuxized.com/2009/12/uzbl-a-terminal-for-the-web-in-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-928 Tom Gillespie Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:28:27 +0000 http://www.linuxized.com/?p=427#comment-928 I’ve been using uzbl for about 3 months, there are still some rough spots but the ability to customize keys makes all other browsers feel like totalitarian dictatorships.

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