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Q: Where is the user manual?
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(AKA How do I configure dillo/How do I change the settings/What are
the keybindings/Where do I change the
start page/home page/search engine/panel/etc...)
Click on the '?' icon in dillo's control panel for the local
help file. If not installed, it should bring you
here.
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Q: What happened to the dillorc preferences for colors?
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CSS happened! To set colors, make a ~/.dillo/style.css
file and add CSS rules there.
| old pref | new CSS rule
| | bg_color=purple | body {background-color: purple}
| | text_color=black | body {color: black}
| | link_color=blue | :link {color: blue}
| | visited_color=0x808080 | :visited {color: #808080}
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To prevent web pages from overriding one of your CSS rules, add
"!important" to it.
To replace the force_my_colors preference, you could use, e.g.:
* {background-color: green !important; color:red
!important}
:link {color: orange !important}
:visited {color: brown !important}
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The asterisk means that this rule should be applied to all HTML elements
that are not otherwise specified.
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Q: How do I force web pages to use my favourite fonts with CSS?
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In your ~/.dillo/style.css file, add rules like:
code, tt, pre, samp, kbd {font-family: monospace
!important}
* {font-family: serif !important}
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Specific fonts are associated with the serif, sans-serif, monospace,
fantasy, and cursive font families in the dillorc configuration
file.
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Q: What does "bad font: variable" mean?
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When FLTK2 (used by Dillo2) is configured with XFT disabled, it expects
"variable" and "fixed" to be listed somewhere in your fonts.alias files
(and furthermore to be aliases for fonts that you have
:).
(an example)
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Q: Why isn't Dillo3 finding the font that I set?
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fltk-1.3 is somewhat more restricted in its use of font names than fltk2
was. Please try the fc-list command as shown in the current
dillorc configuration file to find the right form of the fontname to use.
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Q: Dillo2's rendering is badly broken for me. What do I have to change?
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You're getting blank regions in the window, and much of the text is being
drawn in the upper left corner?
If you configured FLTK2 with --enable-cairo, there's your problem.
Don't do that :)
OSX users: Dillo3 builds and runs native in it.
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Q: What libraries does dillo use?
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Dillo itself: Required: libpthread, libiconv, zlib. Optional: openssl,
libpng, libjpeg.
FLTK: At least on Unix, the minimum might be X11, Xext, plus the
default configuration also requiring Xft and fontconfig.
OpenGL, exceptions, and rtti can be disabled since dillo does not use them.
The FLTK library is normally statically linked into dillo, so you would
only need to get this library itself if you are building dillo for yourself.
Dillo3: fltk-1.3.0
Dillo2: fltk-2.0 (make sure version is >= r6916 and <=r7513)
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Q: Can I run dillo on directfb?
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No. (although Nikita Egorov did have fltk-1.1.9
working
with directfb)
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Q: What's the status of the dillo-3.x series ("dillo3")?
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This is the active branch.
dillo3 uses the
FLTK-1.3
library.
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Q: What's the status of the dillo-2.x series ("dillo2")?
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dillo2 used the unreleased FLTK-2.0 library and is no longer maintained.
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Q: What's the status of the dillo-0.8.x series ("dillo1")?
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dillo1 used the obsolete GTK+-1.2 library and is no longer maintained.
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Q: Internationalization and Localization (i18n & l10n)
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dillo's internal character encoding is
UTF-8.
It uses the iconv library to convert from/to other character encodings.
In recent releases, Dillo has improved line wrapping for Chinese and
Japanese text, and also handles zero-width spaces, which can help with
Thai, Lao, Cambodian, Burmese....
Scripts with right-to-left display (e.g., Arabic, Hebrew) or complex
rendering rules (e.g., Arabic, Indic scripts) are not displayed properly.
The current Dillo developers use Latin-1 languages, so i18n testing and
commentary would be particularly valued.
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Q: Why do some pages look strange?
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In part because the CSS 'float' property is not implemented yet
(it is our top priority).
In the lower right corner of Dillo you'll see a bug-shaped icon.
This is Dillo's
bug meter.
Click on it to see the HTML errors that have been detected.
Our policy is not to work around broken HTML. To learn why, see our
links,
and especially read
"The decommoditization of protocols"
by Raph Levien.
Any HTML parsing patch should be backed up with information from the
HTML 4.01 spec.
Note that previous HTML specs can be considered as well.
Unfortunately, despite our respect for standards, there're some
cases where it's impossible to change the Web's status quo; in those
cases we follow Firefox and HTML5.
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Q: Why doesn't Dillo display certain images?
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Q: How do I enable cookies?
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For privacy reasons, Dillo runs with cookies disabled by default.
Cookies.txt
(also available in the tarball) explains why in more detail.
Configuring cookies in Dillo is easy. Something
like the following inside ~/.dillo/cookiesrc could be
enough to get you started:
#domain action
DEFAULT DENY
fltk.org ACCEPT
.host.com ACCEPT_SESSION
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Q: How do I clear/remove/delete my cookies?
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First, stop your plugins (dpis) with the following command:
dpidc stop
The cookies dpi will write any permanent (ACCEPT) cookies to disk, and
temporary (ACCEPT_SESSION) cookies will be discarded as the dpi exits.
Second, get rid of the permanent cookies by removing or editing your
~/.dillo/cookies.txt file.
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Q: How do I enable the https (SSL) support plugin for dillo?
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First of all, beware that this is a prototype in alpha state. It
will only provide for very basic web page retrievals, POST and GET.
There is no certificate caching and NO AUTHENTICATION performed.
It's disabled by default.
If you want to enable it (e.g. to read forums in https), then use
./configure --enable-ssl
Then recompile and reinstall.
If you want to help us to improve the plugin, please let us know!
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Q: How do I use a proxy with dillo?
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For HTTP, either set the proxy in your ~/.dillo/dillorc
configuration file or set the http_proxy environment variable.
To use a proxy with FTP and downloads, you need to
configure the wget program
that they use.
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Q: Where is the history file?
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Dillo does not have a file containing browsing history.
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Q: After upgrading, I get: "ERROR: dpi.c: can't start dpi daemon"
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The old dpid and some dpis may still be running. Just:
ps aux | grep dpid
dpidc stop
kill <dpid PID>
ps aux | grep dpi
kill <dpi PIDs>
Also: If you built dillo from source yourself, did you configure it so
that 'make install' put dpid in a directory that's in your path?
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Q: How do I get started in developing Dillo plugins (dpis)?
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First, read "doc/Dpid.txt" and then the
Dpi1 spec
for details.
The easy way to get started is to think of them as CGI programs
that don't need a web server, and that provide some handy
extensions. Dillo comes with several dpis. Play for a while
with the bookmarks in dillo (it's implemented with a dpi) to get
an idea of what can be done. The hello dpi provides a simpler
example ("dpi:/hello/world"). Downloads, FTP and HTTPS are also
dpi programs. Choose one of them and start to make some modifications.
Remember that a dpi is an independent process that communicates
with Dillo by using sockets. As an independent
program, it has all the power the underlying OS provides it.
For instance, it would be easy to modify the bookmarks dpi to
provide for a dillo-based GUI for data stored in a DB server.
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Q: I have sent an email/patch/question/etc. to Jorge, but still no answer.
What's the deal?
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Jorge has much more work than he can cope with.
It's impossible to answer all the emails
that pour in. There'd be no time for development, design, patch
reviewing, patch integration, funding initiative, web site
maintenance, quality assurance, release management, ...
So what do I do?
Allow him a week for urgent messages and two for less pressing
matters. If he hasn't answered, send a reminder.
Search the dillo-dev
mailing list archive.
Subscribe to dillo-dev.
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Q: I have an addition to the FAQ/website. Whom do I contact?
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Send all such additions, as well as general questions about the website,
to the
mailing list
(subscription required), or
me.
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