Changing Preferences

Program Preferences

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

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.
Feed Update Settings: Here you can set the default refresh interval for all subscriptions. Note that this setting can be overwritten for each subscription by setting the refresh interval in the subscriptions properties.
The "At startup" option button allows you to control the update behaviour after startup. You have three possibilities:
- Update out-dated feeds.
- Force update all feeds.
- No feed update at all.

Folder Preferences

Folder Display Settings: With these checkbox you can control what Liferea loads into the item list when you click a folder. The default behaviour is not to load any items at all. If you enable the first option all items of all child subscriptions of the selected folder are loaded into the item list. When you enable "Hide read items" then only unread items will be loaded.

Usually you will want to enable both options as this allows to quickly read through all unread items of a set of feeds.
Feed Icons (Favicons): This button allows you to trigger an update of all favicons of all subscriptions.

Headline Preferences

Reading Headlines: Here you can set the hotkey for skimming through all unread headlines.
Web Integration: Here you can configure your favourite social bookmarking website. This setting is used when you invoke "Post Bookmark" from the item context menu or the HTML view.

Browser Preferences

Internal Browser Settings: Here you can configure two things. First you can specify whether or not Liferea should open clicked links in the configured external browser or in the internal browser. The second option allows you to switch off Javascript.
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

Notification Settings: The first option allows you to enable a notification popup window which present a list of the titles of new headlines of updated subscriptions.

Enable the second 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.

There are two additional option which can be used to modify the tray icon behaviour as there is no common default behaviour among applications using tray icons.
Menu Settings: Here you can select whether you want to display both menu bar and tool bar or only one of them. Additionally can influence the toolbar button detail.

Proxy Preferences

HTTP Proxy Server: Here you can specify how Liferea should determine the proxy configuration. The suggested default configuration is to figure it out automatically from the environment variables and the GNOME configuration.

If Liferea incorrectly detects the proxy or you want to configure a different proxy then you should use the "No Proxy" or "Manual Setting" option.

There is currently no SOCKS support.

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.

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.

When you have problems downloading enclosures please ensure you have installed the configured download tool and that it is working correctly when you run it on the command line.
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.

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