os indicator in post question

ewsmith · 01-30-2011, 03:46 PM

This has been bugging me for a while.

Some people have their os show up in a post. I figured out how to
do that, but all I have is a penguin head. How do I replace that with
the slackware symbol?

phil.d.g · 01-30-2011, 04:09 PM

As far as I'm aware, the server detects it based on the user agent string of the browser, it's not something you set yourself

ewsmith · 01-30-2011, 04:11 PM

Oh. Ok.
Thanks.

silvyus_06 · 01-30-2011, 04:16 PM

actually, you can change the user agent string of the browser! just search google. i'm not sure how to do that

MrCode · 01-30-2011, 04:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phil.d.g

it's not something you set yourself

Umm...actually you can set it yourself. If you're using Firefox, go into about:config and change one of the general.useragent.* fields there to include the name of your distribution (I just appended "Arch" to general.useragent.extra.firefox to get the Arch icon on my posts). You can test it in this thread.

Chrom(e|ium) has a CLI switch --user-agent where you can provide this info.

phil.d.g · 01-30-2011, 06:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

Umm...actually you can set it yourself. If you're using Firefox, go into about:config and change one of the general.useragent.* fields there to include the name of your distribution (I just appended "Arch" to general.useragent.extra.firefox to get the Arch icon on my posts). You can test it in this thread.

Chrom(e|ium) has a CLI switch --user-agent where you can provide this info.

lol, I meant you couldn't set the icon displayed explicitly.

If you change the user agent string then the icon will change as a side effect, however that will only work if the forums recognise the user agent and has an icon associated with it.

ewsmith · 01-30-2011, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

Umm...actually you can set it yourself. If you're using Firefox, go into about:config and change one of the general.useragent.* fields there to include the name of your distribution (I just appended "Arch" to general.useragent.extra.firefox to get the Arch icon on my posts). You can test it in this thread.

Chrom(e|ium) has a CLI switch --user-agent where you can provide this info.

I am going to try this. Thanks.

EDIT:
It works! Woo!

Unfortunately, I posted the 'test' post in the wrong thread. The one about the solved slackware icon firefox 4 beta.

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 04:29 AM

OS indictator test post

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 04:51 AM

Test again

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 04:55 AM

Seems like the: "general.useragent.extra.firefox" setting does not work as it should.
My OS indicator icon stays as it was or disappers.

Is CentOS even recognised by linuxqustions.org?

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 05:02 AM

test again

whizje · 07-31-2012, 05:04 AM

Centos test

Code:

useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Centos;  Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Firefox/12.0

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 05:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by whizje

Centos test

Code:

useragent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Centos;  Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0 Firefox/12.0

Thanks!

Let's see

okcomputer44 · 07-31-2012, 05:28 AM

This goes into "general.useragent.extra.firefox" as a string right?

onebuck · 07-31-2012, 08:50 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrCode

<snip>You can test it in this thread.

<snip>

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-issue-745067/ Thread is closed.