xombrero, a secure WebKit derivate

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Started 9 years ago by oui
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oui

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Hi

Aleksej did upload a great fully figured version of the actual Xombrero package! Thank you very much Aleksej! Your version works very well, better than the version that Kubuntu 14.04 (upgraded 14.10; it was not Xombrero itself but the last version of XXXTERM, the same package, a bit older, under the old name xxxterm...) installs. The Kubuntu installation was the best but now your full figured installation in SliTaz is a bit better.

Why?

- all works (::)! Home page, favorites, task bar on top, Vim like taskbar at the page bottom, remember last user name and password if you mark you are wishing that (for example: in this or other forums), plugins espec. flashplugin! I can for example look at differed time for my "national" TV news at http://france2.fr/jt/20h and that is often very difficult in most Linux installations (it is a good testing page to control how good or bad flashpluging really works ;-) . this national TV is terribly addicted to commercial softwares against the real interests of the French people! And I can use my email box at http://gmx.net in secure mode (it is not possible in Firefox without some addons having other bad consequences, espec. that the browser become, on my old PC, terribly slow as gmx tryes to open a lot of commercial pages like facebook, google etc. web terror is that. using the addon noScript, where you have to look for each one, you can only wunder!)

- it is very light in Slitaz as WebKit is part of graphic SliTaz (giving SliTaz TazWEB, SliTaz panel, including the beautiful graphic mode SliTaz installer (probably a great exception in all the Linux world! Which other Linux has such a perfect web installer? I say it although I did install SliTaz5 manually, because actually the graphic installer require a password for «tux» and I will not give «tux» some password! It was a great speciallity of SliTaz and now it is also possible on some other distros: they did learn of SliTaz ;-) !)

I open this thread to try to clarify if there are more faculties that I can use in xombrero:

a/ how to use a own Home page from HD (file://~/Documents/my-own-homepage.html) as I have no one online?
possible / not possible / how to do that?

b/ how to avoid that xombrero opens popup windows from visited webpages?
possible / not possible / how to do that?

c/ is the splitting of the «favorites» page possible
possible / not possible / how to do that?
(I did try to had following 2 lines:
favoritesRad
~/.xombrero/favoritesBike
the system answer with following error message in red in the bottom line:
"stopping attempt to look an invalid url. Possible bait or switsch attack)

d/ how to open htlm or xml pages recorded on my HD
possible / not possible / how to do that?

e/ how to use the localhost (esp. for Cups!)
possible / not possible / how to do that?
(entering http://localhost:631 in the top task field, the system answer: "Could not connect: Connection refused" logged in as tux, but sudo works well with tux!)

f/ hot to activate spell checking and change the dictionnary (if you are writting in different languages)?
possible / not possible / how to do that?

what are you thinking about the possibility offered by xombrero (and some filter in other browser) to activate a "white list". are some users present doing hat?

kind regards

Posted 9 years ago #
Aleksej

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Hi guys!
Here is the full log of xombrero receipt: http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/log/tip/xombrero/receipt
I not touched it in any case. All congratulatuons sent to Claudinei! :)

Posted 9 years ago #
Claudinei Pereira

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Hi :)

Oui, you can configure xombrero to your taste using the /etc/xombrero.conf file. Here you can see the standard xombrero.conf used in the package:

http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/file/7a1a473a365b/xombrero/stuff/xombrero.conf

For example, if you want to change your home page, just change the line:

home = http://www.slitaz.org

From http://www.slitaz.org to whatever value you need. For other configurations, read the comments on the file, and uncomment the ones that suit your needs.

Posted 9 years ago #
oui

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Hi Claudinei

Thank you for your fast answer.

To avoid to alterate the system file /etc/xombrero.conf I did

a) copy /etc/xombrero.conf both into /root and into ~/ as .xombrero_alternate.conf
b) uncomment the last line (include_config = ~/.xombrero_alternate.conf) in /etc/xombrero.conf
c) comment all other already set lines

to made my changes correctly only in my home as root as well as as user

this works (of course :)) ...)

My problem is now that xombrero doesn't accept my home page (at line #30 in your file http://hg.slitaz.org/wok/file/7a1a473a365b/xombrero/stuff/xombrero.conf ) as it is a DOCUMENT ON MY HARDDISK (actually ~/presse.html where the url's of all news papers etc are linked as I need it, often a local subdivision on the site where I live, so the town where I live, or the thematic http://www.newspaperX.com/autos ).

How to link / refer to a resident web page on the own harddisk?

Kind regards

Posted 9 years ago #
oui

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Hi

I did find an alternative way to refer to such a page on my harddisk:

http://localhost/wiki/index.sh?page=forums

did be accepted in my ~/xombrero_alternate.conf file and works.

but as I have a lot of own *.html pages on my hard disk and know no way to convert them easily into kiss-wiki pages, this is of course not really an optimal way. on kubuntu, I can open such pages in xxxterm but I don't understand where the SliTaz version of Xombrero blocks them (my English is really poor: I did never learn English! I can write a lot using a small own number of words and some French words if I know no correct word on English (::) ! but understand all settings in the very long list of .xombrero.conf correctly and understand very well what is the real question... Hm...).

Kind regards

Posted 9 years ago #
Aleksej

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Hi oui,

Maybe this helps (can't check, now writing on smartphone):

Make the folder (as root) /var/www/mypages (or something similar). Put your html pages there. Open in browser url http://localhost/mypages . You should see list of your html pages. Clicking link should open the individual page, and you can see its url in the browser address bar.

If you know html and wanted to edit your pages with aim to make links from one page to the other, then you can use relative url. All pages are in one folder, so
```
<a href="another_page.html">another page</a>
```
should be enough.
Posted 9 years ago #
oui

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perfect: this solves all above questions (excepted spell cheking, of course!):

my big partition (about 0,5 Terra bytes) is mounted through fstab as subdir in my /home/tux as /home/tux/big

in the big partition, the own documents are all in the big directory /ym (reversed writing for /my ;-) , as precaution because I did one time erase all that terrible big subdir with all my doc's only deleting all the directories of an installation being to have only upgrated! never give a name to such dir beginning with a letter between B..V because you forget to simply it existence there...). my links pages are in /ym/links and my html pages and documents sub dir in /ym/html

so I did simply enter following link:

ln -s /home/tux/big/ym/links /var/www/links

and

ln -s /home/tux/big/ym/html /var/www/html

nothing to link separately or to move, the localhost does all the job perfectly with xombrero! I will only have a problem with the owner rights from all that stuff (in my big partition, all the stuff in /ym own to the user "oui", not to the user "tux"....

thank you Aleksej, that is a really beautiful an professionnal issue to all my problems (excepted spell checking)!

Posted 9 years ago #
Ceel

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Hi,

merci at oui who let me discover Xombrero and made me want to try it.
I think I will definitely adopt it on my very poor RAM computer.
And thanks to dev too, of course!

Posted 9 years ago #
oui

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conc. my last msg in:

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-and-debian

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concerning dictionaries: I did google a bit in the last hours and suppose that the very good spell checking function in Xombrero is a figure proposed by webkit!

and as far I did understand what I did find, webkit (and a lot of other app's) seems to be able to use hunspell. but there are no hunspell dictionaries in SliTaz (SliTaz offers aspell; but how to make aspell useful in Midori or TazWeb browser? Both also work with webkit)? I am now in SliTaz in Midori and did mark "enable spell checking" in Edit>Preferences>>Behaviour. Nothing happens).

second question: how to change the language of spell checking (in Midori! In Xombrero, no problem, but it is not user friendly, you only have to change in the adequate line in your ~/.alternate-xombrero.conf if you already did create it; take care: it works only if you change the last line in your /etc/xombrero.conf!!!).

Posted 9 years ago #
oui

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what is xombrero able to do?

really a lot of functions...

examples (being not available in all versions of xombrero/xxxterm installed on my PC's, probably because different presettings):

in SliTaz
I can show my national TV-news at http://france2.fr/jt/20h for ex. (in Kubuntu, this figure starts also (it finds and accepts the installed libflashplayer.so) but breaks after some seconds).
in SliTaz
I can enter some logins and password, so here at the SliTaz forum, and Xombrero remembers them (but not at my email box at https://gmx.net and it is very good so!)
in Kubuntu
show the last looked web sites beginning with "pipapo" (my wife like this figure! I don't like it)
in Kubuntu
spell checking in the 3 languages I am writting (yes, you don't have to select only one but can write more than one language in your ~/.alternate-xombrero.conf, comma separated)
in Kubuntu
open directly HTML pages on my hard disk
in Slitaz
open HTML pages on my hard disk using a link in the subdir of the localhost of SliTaz at /var/www/

if you did not yet have pre installed xombrero, you can't look for the xombrero manpage. there is one here http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/xxxterm.1.html for xxxterm and they are about the same. you can look for all possible settings. For user not fit in English (as I (::) !): I am sorry, I did find this page only in English! There are really a lot of individual choices possible!

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