Re: cwm menu parsing
On 2015-08-05, Erling Westenvik wrote: I've noticed this too for the last snapshots I've been trying, and was planning to check out the sources to see what changes has been commited causing what to me seems to be that the menu now gets alfabetically sorted. I've also noticed this pop up within the last month using the Linux port of cwm from github (url: https://github.com/chneukirchen/cwm). -bsd
Re: Default OpenBSD browser
On 2015-07-28, li...@wrant.com wrote: What is the best and lightest browser... Dillo is generally good, with Firefox for heavy sites. Seconded. The default browser concept is most probably not a good idea (read a bad idea) for any OS. There is no such thing as best, but for lightest: Dillo is very fast lightweight and almost always renders correct the proper sites, and has no JavaScript vulnerabilities (for now). Helps read web pages daily. The ftp(1) works great for command line client, used daily. Any opinions on w3m as an alternative to the much debated lynx for casual text mode browsing? I use w3m daily and heavily for browsing most basic web pages or if I just want to read text content when the look/layout of a page is not necessary for me. It handles cookies if you want it to, with easy cookie management. Has tabs, but doesn't remember sessions (unless you are using the w3m Emacs plugin, which I have never tried). I also use it to browse directories that have a lot of HTML files, like my book and web archive collections. I've used its external browser functions to attach URL yanking to keybinds (hint: define a browser as xsel), which is handy. It has an image mode which seems to be pretty hackish and has never worked smoothly for me, at least running rxvt with tmux. I use it rarely, and instead use the program's mailcap file to define an image viewer, and view images externally by selecting them and hitting a keybind. Some of the features and options can be difficult to discover or decipher due partly to the state of the English documentation (author is Japanese). Maybe someday when I find more time I can contribute to the documentation, and maybe one day, the code. Seconding Dillo for a quick, no-nonsense graphical browser. And of course there is always surf[1]. [1] http://surf.suckless.org -Brendan
Re: Default OpenBSD browser
On 2015-07-29, Scarlett wrote: (My last few mails to this list have been caught by the spam daemon, so I'm replying directly and hoping this makes its way through). I've wrestled with w3m's code plenty. What I found did not make me happy, as bcallah@ can attest (they also pointed me to this message). Numerous Linux distributions have fixes for fairly serious bugs in w3m sitting in their patches directories that have not been fixed upstream. Fuzzing it did not have positive results. Memory management practices are terrible. I suspect that replacing the GC layer with regular malloc() and adding free() in the correct places would be a major effort. A rewrite would possibly be preferable. I've merged a lot of fixes from various Linux distributions, and some of my own (C-standard-libraryification, overflow checks, NULL pointer deref bugs). I've also made some non-trivial simplifications to the code, removed a lot of cruft, and made it use libtls. You can check out my repository here, if you're interested: https://bitbucket.org/Scarletts/w3m/src I'd be really happy if other people took an interest and sent in some patches, or just tested it. w3m is fairly terrifying code. I would recommend using a modern intensively audited browser and disabling features like JavaScript over using w3m if security is a major concern. On the bells and whistles end of the spectrum, I'm rather partial to Iridium at the moment. Video performance on YouTube is much nicer than Firefox, and the process-per-tab feature adds some much needed stability. I am not a programmer at all, so I avoided stating that my gut tells me that w3m is likely in dire need of major fixes and optimizations. My dream project, if I ever learn C, would be to fork w3m or to write a brand new browser in the spirit of w3m. I'll check out your repo and mess around with it, for sure :) Thanks for the reply. -BSD
Re: lynx is gone?
On 2015-03-04, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: curling the mirrors page is another. This was my first thought. I don't think this is out of anyone's league if they are already choosing to install OpenBSD.
Re: Solved! Re: OpenBSD firefox useragent Facebook
On 2015-02-20, Erling Westenvik wrote: It's all about the user agent string. When changing from the default: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 to: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; OpenBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090702 Firefox/3.5 things started to work as expected. Not that the working string is ideal; it just happened to be one I tried and which worked. I'll try to figure out which part(s) of it that matches Facebook's somewhat flaky user agent string detection algorithm. Erling, have you considered the Blender add-on for Firefox? Mozilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/blender-1/ Github: https://github.com/meh/blender From the README: This addon sets various preferences to fake to be the most common. It fakes: * the operating system to be Windows 7 64-bit * Firefox to be version 35 * the language to be English * the accepted charsets to be unspecified I do believe you can override the language spoofing. No noticable problems here on my *BSD and Linux boxes. -Brendan
Problems setting screen brightness on Elitebook 8470w
Hello all, This is my very first OpenBSD install on bare metal, on an HP EliteBook 8470w, OpenBSD 5.6 to be exact. Everything is going quite nicely except for the machine's backlight which I can't seem to adjust. Here are the specifics: 1) The brightness keys (Fn-F9 and Fn-F8) do not work. 2) Using xbacklight (example: $ xbacklight -dec 10) returns the message No outputs have backlight property. 3) 'wsconsctl display.brightness=xx' does not work. 4) A suspend/resume cycle, which I've read temporarily fixes this issue with many machines, does not work. 5) I have seen some folks suggest something like 'xrandr --output LVDS --brightness xx', which seems to only alter the colors of my screen to appear brighter, but not actually adjust the brightness. I've done quite a bit of searching around but can't seem to come up with anything. I'm very new to *BSD and am a hardware newbie so please forgive me for missing something obvious. Attached below is my dmesg output. Any bits of guidance would be greatly appreciated. -Brendan OpenBSD 5.6 (GENERIC.MP) #333: Fri Aug 8 00:20:21 MDT 2014 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 4208975872 (4013MB) avail mem = 4088147968 (3898MB) mpath0 at root scsibus0 at mpath0: 256 targets mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.7 @ 0xbecfe000 (32 entries) bios0: vendor Hewlett-Packard version 68ICF Ver. F.46 date 01/17/2014 bios0: Hewlett-Packard HP EliteBook 8470w acpi0 at bios0: rev 2 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET APIC MCFG TCPA SSDT SSDT SLIC MSDM FPDT BGRT SSDT SSDT ASF! acpi0: wakeup devices LANC(S0) EHC1(S3) EHC2(S3) XHC_(S3) PCIB(S5) RP02(S4) ECF0(S4) RP03(S4) RP04(S5) WNIC(S5) RP06(S0) NIC_(S0) RP07(S4) RP08(S4) HST1(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee0: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3360M CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2794.05 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,SMEP,ERMS cpu0: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: smt 0, core 0, package 0 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support, 10 var ranges, 88 fixed ranges cpu0: apic clock running at 99MHz cpu0: mwait min=64, max=64, C-substates=0.2.1.1.2, IBE cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3360M CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2793.65 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,SMEP,ERMS cpu1: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu1: smt 1, core 0, package 0 cpu2 at mainbus0: apid 2 (application processor) cpu2: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3360M CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2793.65 MHz cpu2: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,SMEP,ERMS cpu2: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu2: smt 0, core 1, package 0 cpu3 at mainbus0: apid 3 (application processor) cpu3: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3360M CPU @ 2.80GHz, 2793.65 MHz cpu3: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE,SSE3,PCLMUL,DTES64,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,DEADLINE,AES,XSAVE,AVX,F16C,RDRAND,NXE,LONG,LAHF,PERF,ITSC,FSGSBASE,SMEP,ERMS cpu3: 256KB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu3: smt 1, core 1, package 0 ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 0 pa 0xfec0, version 20, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe000, bus 0-255 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 1 (PEGP) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus -1 (PCIB) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 2 (RP01) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 3 (RP02) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 36 (RP03) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus 37 (RP04) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu1 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu2 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpicpu3 at acpi0: C2, C1, PSS acpipwrres0 at acpi0: APPR, resource for HDEF acpipwrres1 at acpi0: COMP, resource for COM1 acpipwrres2 at acpi0: LPP_, resource for LPT0 acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature is 128 degC acpitz1 at acpi0: critical temperature is 128 degC acpitz2 at acpi0: critical temperature is 128 degC acpitz3 at acpi0: critical temperature is 128
