Program Preferences
The preferences dialog can be opened by the toolbar or
through the "Program" menu. The dialog is divided into seven tabs
described in the following text.
Feed Preferences
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Feed Cache Handling: Here you can set the default number
of items to be saved for each subscription. Note that this setting
can be overwritten for each subscription by setting the item cache
size in the subscriptions properties.
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Feed Update Settings: Here you can set the default update
interval for all subscriptions. If it is set to 0 auto-updating
is disabled. Note that this setting can be overwritten for each
subscription by setting the update interval in the subscriptions
properties.
The option button allows you to control the update behaviour
after startup. You have three possibilities:
- Update all out-dated subscriptions.
- Update all subscriptions.
- Don't update subscriptions and reset their update intervals.
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Feed Loading Settings: With this option you can influence
the memory usage of Liferea. You can select wether to keep all
subscription contents in memory or to load the contents from
disk when needed.
Folder Preferences
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Folder Display Settings: With this checkbox you can control
what Liferea loads into the item list when you click a folder.
The default behaviour is not to change the item list contents. If
you enable this option all items of all child subscriptions of the
selected folder are loaded into the item list.
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Feed Icons (Favicons): This button allows you to trigger
an update of all favicons of all subscriptions.
Headline Preferences
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Reading Headlines: Here you can set the hotkey for skimming
through all unread headlines.
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Date Column Settings: Here you can configure the format of
the date column of the item list. When using the user defined
option you need to know about the format codes used for this
feature (experienced users only! please refer to the strftime()
manpage).
Browser Preferences
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Internal Browser Settings: Here you can configure three
things. First you can select the browser module to be used to
render the HTML of the item view. Then you can specify wether
or not Liferea should open clicked links in the configured
external browser or in the item HTML view. The third option
allows you to switch off Javascript.
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External Browser Settings: When you click links in then
item HTML view Liferea launches the a browser command you can
define with this preferences. The first option button is to
select your favourite browser or "Manual" for a user defined
browser command. With the second option button you specify
how the link is opened inside the previously selected browser.
Only when selecting "Manual" as browser you can enter a
browser command in the command entry. When entering a command
don't forget to include a "%s" within the command which
will be replaced with the URL that was clicked. Please keep in
mind to double quote the place holder to avoid shell problems
with the hash character (#) when launching the browser.
GUI Preferences
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Notification Settings: Enable the first checkbox if you
want to use the notification area feature. This feature is also
known as system tray icon. The program will add a icon to the active
notification area application (as provided for GNOME and KDE) which
will change when new items arrive and 'll be reset as soon the program
is used again. The icon can be used to show the program window if
currently hidden or hide the program window if it is visible.
The second option allows you to enable a notification popup
window which present a list of the titles of new headlines
of updated subscriptions.
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Menu Settings: Here you can select wether you want to
display both menu bar and tool bar or only one of them.
Proxy Preferences
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HTTP Proxy Server: Using this preference tab you can
configure a HTTP proxy for Liferea. If you are a GNOME user
don't use this tab and configure the proxy in the GNOME
preference (if not already done). Liferea will then automatically
use the GNOME proxy preferences.
Currently Liferea does not allow you to specify host not
to be accessed with the configured proxy.
Enclosures Preferences
This tab allows you to configure how Liferea should handle
enclosures. If you are still unsure what enclosures are
about please read the Enclosures/Podcasting
section first.
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Downloading Enclosures: Here you specify which download
tool Liferea should use to download enclosures and in which path
the downloaded files should be saved in.
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Opening Enclosures: Using the "Properties" and "Delete" button
you can edit the list of known enclosures types. Typically you only
want to do this if you want to remove or change program associations.
You don't need to create this definitions manually because Liferea
will create a new one and ask you which program to use when you
open or save a type of enclosures.