Re: [Vimprobable-users] Newbie Questions
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Re: [Vimprobable-users] Newbie Questions
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From: Ian M. <ia...@gm...> - 2013-10-01 08:49:26
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Hi Matt My distro is LFS (Linux from Scratch) which I arrived at via Arch and Gentoo in my ( some say obsessive ) quest for simplicity and control. Having lots of control and limited knowledge is a dangerous thing! I don't THINK it's a dependency issue; everything has been built from source and usually missing dependencies crash configure or make. Vimprobable2 is not reporting any errors or warnings. Also, as I mentioned, I had the same problem with midori ( also webkitgtk based) and so did other midori users and the solution was to set the webkit parameter enable-universal-access-from-file-uris to TRUE. I just don't know if this can be easily done in vimprobable. The fonts problem did not appear in midori although I had the same fonts installed. I notice that if I change fonts in firefox, they change, whereas in vimprobable changing the font with :set seems to have no effect. Possibly it's not finding the fonts ( in /usr/share/fonts) Today I grepped the webkit source code and found a string 'enable-universal-access-from-file-uris,FALSE' As a last resort I might change that to TRUE and rebuild webkit! Anyway, thanks for the reply. If I really get myself in trouble, I can go back to Arch. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Matthew Carter <je...@gm...> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > The GTK doc page renders fine for me in both Firefox and vimprobable2 > (both 1.2 and 1.3). > > The fonts on gmail are also clear. > > I am using Arch GNU/Linux - I tried the local file with both proxy on and > proxy > off (I use privoxy normally) and had no issues with either. > > I don't have any special settings in vimprobablerc other than > set escapeinput=true and set proxy=true. > > I may have missed it in your other email, what distro are you using? > Maybe it is a problem with vimprobable2 dependencies vs vimprobable2 > itself on your system? > > -Matt > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 01:35:47PM +1000, Ian Macdonald wrote: > > Hannes, > > > > Thanks for the prompt reply. > > > > My first problem is largely resolved. My 'cabundle' file is called > > 'ca-bundle.crt' not the default 'ca-certificates.crt' and I checked > > the path was correct but didn't notice the file name difference. Now the > > certificates are accepted and I don't have to set sslstrict=false > > which was the main concern. It still insists on the browser identifying > > itself as Mozilla but I can live with that. > > > > To explain the second problem; if I navigate to > > 'file:///usr/share/gtk-doc/html/webkitgtk/index.html' in firefox I see a > > nicely formatted > > title page of the WebKitGTK+ Reference Manual with links to various > topics > > etc. If I go to the same site using vimprobable2, I get > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 > Transitional//EN"><html><head> > > > > ... etc > > > > I had the same problem with midori and it is referred to in the midori > FAQ > > "Is it possible to disable Same Origin Policy? What Webkit settings not > in > > the preferences can I change? > > > > You can change all values of > > WebKitWebSettings< > http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/WebKitWebSettings.html>in > > the config file (~/.config/midori/config on unices, > > %APPDATA%\midori\config [please check :)] on Windows). For example, to > > disable Same Origin Policy for local files, add > > > > enable-universal-access-from-file-uris=true > > > > to your config file." > > That solved the problem in midori but it seems that vimprobable only > allows > > a subset of the webkit settings to be set in vimprobablerc. I notice in > the > > vimprobable config.h there is an > > array mapping set commands to webkit parameters; would it be a simple > > matter of adding another for 'enable-universal-access-from-file-uris'? > > It does worry me that no one else is seeing this problem; more and more > > software packages ( like webkit) distribute their help files as html and > > you would have thought others > > would have the same problem. > > > > Since my first post, having resolved one problem, I've discovered > another. > > On many sites ( e.g. gmail ) the fonts are fuzzy or faint and difficult > to > > read. I'm using the same default fonts > > in firefox and they are fine. Playing with the :set command shows that > the > > fontsize parameters work as expected but font type changes seem to have > no > > effect. > > Any hints or examples of a usable font set? > > > > Thanks and sorry for the silly questions. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Hannes Schüller <ha...@yl...> wrote: > > > > > Hello Ian! > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:49:58 +1000, Ian Macdonald <ia...@gm...> > > > wrote: > > > > Browsing the mail achive makes me think this is not the place for > > > > newbies at all, but I cant find anything else. > > > > > > This is the right place :) > > > > > > > I have been able to connect to a couple of banks with vimprobable > > > > ( all be it very slowly) by setting strictssl false, scripts true and > > > > user agent to the one used by my current firefox. My first question > > > > is can this be done on a 'per site' basis? > > > > > > I made a patch for that once: > > > > > > > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=1334266187-30993-5-git-send-email-hannes%40yllr.net&forum_name=vimprobable-users > > > > > > Apart from a couple of technical issues identified further down the > > > thread, there were major conceptual issues, though, and it did not seem > > > to be a particularly popular proposition at the time. > > > > > > Pending an update (which is questionable right now), my suggestion > > > would be the following: > > > - The SSL issue can be solved by importing the bank's certificate (or > > > the appropriate root certificate) into your certificate store. That > > > should be good practice anyway. > > > - Assign a key combination to commit and revert those settings you use > > > all the time, e.g. bind <C-w> to set the alternate useragent and > > > <S-w> to revert back. Certainly not ideal, but a workaround. > > > > > > > My second question concerns rendering html files stored locally. > > > > > > I'm not sure what the issue is here. Vimprobable can display local HTML > > > files. Could you be a bit more specific what is it that is preventing > > > you from doing what you want to achieve? > > > > > > Hannes > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > October Webinars: Code for Performance > > > Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. > > > Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the > most > > > from > > > the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. 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