uzbl - a usable browser

avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

To quote their webpage

dreadlorde · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 3:36 pm Post subject:

I think I just came.
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fr4nk · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Austria

Wow.

Thanks for that link! Gonna keep a close eye on that project.

dreadlorde · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:08 pm Post subject:

Anyone compiled this yet? There doesn't seem the be the webkit version that uzbl requires in portage (unless it's webkit-gtk, which isn't located at webkitgtk.org). Fun.
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avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

Jep, it's webkit-gtk. Using it for about 2-3 weeks now, working good for me, but I need to do some tweaking before deleting my opera.

dreadlorde · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

Compiling webkit-gtk + libsoup right now.

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Spaulding · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject:

Here's my ebuild:
http://wklej.org/id/94663/
very ugly & non tested... if you have any suggestions just write to me.

dreadlorde · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:14 pm Post subject:

Looks like it still needs some work; or I didn't install something.

fr4nk · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Austria

dreadlorde · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject:

avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

Updated 1st post to reflect @Spaulding's ebuild.

@Spaulding, please up it @b.g.o, if you don't have an account there/don't want to, let me know and I'll do it, thanks.

Spaulding · Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject:

reffering to fr4nk post I update my ebuild.

avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

Is the "emake -j1" needed? Compiles with -j3 without problems for me. Since uzbl isn't that usefull alone, maybe include a USE-flag triggered include of dmenu?

Besides that, nice work and thanks again.

Edit, thanks to @Spaulding, there's now a bug for uzbl at b.g.o.

dreadlorde · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

Anyone else have webkit-gtk-0_p42162 fail to compile?
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fr4nk · n00b Joined: 29 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Austria

Also, there is a new version in portage: 1.1.7. Maybe that one works for you.

dreadlorde · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:57 pm Post subject:

avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

Sweet, glad you like it

Following the dwm-mailinglist, it doesn't seem like the vertical-patch for dmenu will be accepted upstream, but since this is pretty usefull for our needs here, maybe someone is willing to post an ebuild including the patch to bugzilla? Be faster than me, I'll go to bed :p

dreadlorde · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 1:16 am Post subject:

What's the significance of the dmenu vertical patch with uzbl?
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avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

The original dmenu presents choices only in a horizontal, i.e. left to right, fashion, which is pretty akward to read, if you use it to switch between several instances of uzbl by the pages names or urls. Think about having 10+ tabs open in ff/o and you can barely read the first few letters of a tab. On the contrary, the vertical dmenu presents the choices as a list from up to down, so there is way more space to fit a long url, because every entry gets a single line. Of course, if you have something like 50 instances of uzbl, your screen will be pretty much only a dmenu, but since it reduces the options to the findings of your typing, this doesn't stay long.

Here's a screeny of the vertical dmenu in action(on the right side).

dreadlorde · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

What do you want to do with the resulting list? You can pipe anything to dmenu, i.e. something like `ps aux | grep something | dmenu`.

Dieter@be · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:07 pm Post subject:

Someone posted an ebuild on http://www.uzbl.org/wiki/gentoo_ebuild

feel free to improve that page.

And glad you guys like it

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avx · Veteran Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 1619

@Dieter@be, IIRC I read on the arch-forums that your eventually planning to fork dmenu under a new name and include the vertical patches. Is this still planned?

Another question, maybe I overlooked it, but how do I handle mailto-links(actually I haven't even tried, just crossed my mind at this very moment :p )? Edit, what about a cli-switch to start uzbl in a defined size and position, something like the common "-g 800x600+400+200"?

Dieter@be · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: