{"id":510,"date":"2004-11-06T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-06T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=510"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"customizing-xfce4-liferea-and-new-favicons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2004\/11\/customizing-xfce4-liferea-and-new-favicons\/","title":{"rendered":"customizing xfce4, liferea, and new favicons"},"content":{"rendered":"

My journal has been sadly devoid of computer fun entries lately. I just haven’t had time to play with my computer so much, I hadn’t even customized xfce4 since my reinstall a few weeks ago, and that’s sad! Well I remedied that, and did a few other fun things this morning.<\/p>\n

I was sick of launching all my programs from the Run prompt, and finally got around to putting them in my xfce4 control panel, which now looks like this:<\/p>\n

\"xfce4
\nFor full screenshot, see here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n

I have xfce4-weather installed, so I have current temp (and whatever other readings I want, in the summer I go temp and humidity, in the winter I go temp and wind chill). And lauch buttons for aterm<\/a>[1], xmms<\/a>, mozilla<\/a>, gimp<\/a>, gnumeric<\/a>, logjam<\/a> and liferea<\/a>, then the volume control (green thing) and clock. I’m sure I’ll think of more programs that I use regularly, but that’s most of them.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I installed liferea<\/a>. I really loved using firefox<\/a> + sage<\/a>, it was everything I wanted in a feed aggregator, and it looked great<\/a>. But I go so sick of firefox being bad, each time I upgraded there was a new problem, least of which was reinstalling all my extensions each time. I was patient with it, I could handle the find tool not working, and various other annoyances, but this last time I installed it, it’d seg fault each time I pressed enter after putting something in the addressbar. I couldn’t take that. So I unistalled firefox and decided I needed to find a new aggregator. I installed straw<\/a>, but I don’t think my system has enough Gnome love for it to work properly. So I went with liferea, and it works fine, even if I don’t love it as much as firefox and sage.<\/p>\n

I got around to changing my website<\/a>‘s favicon today. If you go to my site in a browser that supports it you can see it’s just a little leia head, much better than the silly flower I had before (which was designed with a way old site layout in mind). I also gave a favicon to caligula<\/a>‘s website. I was discouraged to find that when I opened up mozilla the icon didn’t show up, but then wondered.. “does mozilla ever show them? I think it’s only sometimes.” It turns out that mozilla removed automatic support for all of them, preferring to only show them when this was in the <head>:<\/p>\n

<link rel=”SHORTCUT ICON” href=”\/favicon.ico”><\/p>\n

So first I added that, then I went in search of a solution to it not automagically showing all favicons, and found it here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Mozilla no longer reads \/favicon.ico images by default although Mozilla still reads page icons defined with the <link> tag. Set the following pref to turn the feature back on.<\/p>\n

user_pref(“browser.chrome.favicons”,true);<\/i><\/p>\n

So, you’d first close mozilla (editing text files while it’s running is silly, since they’ll just be overwritten), then you open the ~\/.mozilla\/default\/orojbmpz.slt\/prefs.js file and drop in that user_pref. Yay now I have favicons everywhere in mozilla!<\/p>\n

Now I need to go outside and rake leaves. *groan* Owning a house is so much fun!<\/p>\n

[1] aterm -tr -bg black -fg white -tint magenta -sh 25 +sb -fn ‘-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-*-*-140-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1’<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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