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Testing Arch Linux, using Konqueror from the KDEmod legacy repository because I like KDE3.5 better than any KDE4.x

Yeah, how do you set the useragent string in Konqueror...? I haven't found an option to do that.

Not sure if it's still applicable for the KDE4.x series Konqueror, but the legacy 3.5 one you go Settings >> Configure Konqueror, Go to the Browser Identification part, and just check or uncheck the options. To get Arch to work, you need to check both 'Add Operating System Name' and 'Add Operating System Version'

Posting from Mandriva One 2010 KDE in Konqueror, with all useragent settings checked.

Icon? Nope.

There appears to be no way of editing the useragent string directly. I tried using the site-specific options, but even then it wouldn't let me edit the string manually.

Settings->Configure Konqueror...->Browser Identification

Originally Posted by MrCode Posting from Mandriva One 2010 KDE in Konqueror, with all useragent settings checked. Icon? Nope. There appears to be no way of editing the useragent string directly. I tried using the site-specific options, but even then it wouldn't let me edit the string manually.

The file that gets modified when you do site specific identification is ~/.kde/share/config/kio_httprc. Here is mine for instance

UserAgentKeys=o

[$Version]
update_info=kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r1,kioslave.upd:kde2.2/r2

[www.linuxquestions.org]
UserAgent=Slackware/current Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; i686 Linux; en_US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6

This was posted from konqueror.

Okay, edited kio_httprc, posting again from Mandriva...

Icon? Awesome!

This is the useragent line:

[www.linuxquestions.org]
UserAgent=Mandriva 2010 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.4 Linux; i686) KHTNL/4.4.3 (like Gecko)

Mostly I just wanted to know how to do this for future reference, if I ever hop over to a distro that uses KDE (or if I decide to install KDE/Konqueror on my Arch host; this was posted from a virtual machine).

IIRC there's also a way to set the useragent manually in Chrome(ium), but I think it's just via a command-line option (I think it's --user-agent=<useragent string here> or something).

If I set Chrom(e|ium)'s user agent using the command line option, will it be remembered or do I have to enter it every time I launch it?

(back to Arch/FF)

If you set your launcher's command line (the command that gets executed whenever you (double-)click the launcher on the desktop/panel/whatever) to include the --user-agent=<UA> line, that should do the trick.

Originally Posted by MrCode (back to Arch/FF) If you set your launcher's command line (the command that gets executed whenever you (double-)click the launcher on the desktop/panel/whatever) to include the --user-agent=<UA> line, that should do the trick.

But I don't use a launcher with a configurable command!

Originally Posted by MTK358 But I don't use a launcher with a configurable command!

What are you using? If openbox is like fluxbox then in the executed command it can be edited to include the useragent string. Otherwise you need to use an alias from the command line. But somewhere an icon or a menu entry ought to be tied to what is essentially a shell command... right?