Why is my distro not showing up in posts?
Well, I posted this topic about a fortnight ago and I was told there were similar threads and i should look for them. I found some, but not exactly similar to me, nor did the procedures worked.
I post on LQ either through Windows 7 or Ubuntu 12.04 or Fedora 17. I use either Google Chrome or Firefox of latest versions. I hope this is enough info I can give you. Sadly, while posting from Win7, a Win7 logo appears to the bottom-left of my posts (where the distro is seen by default) but from either linux my distro doesn't show up. All I get either a generic tux head or even worse, a queston mark. :( I tried deleting the name of my distro from my CP. But same tux head. Whereas others' distros, even Ubuntu, are seen. I know that's not my alone's problem, but please guide my how I can get that. This is not a crucial matter, but I'd like to show my distro to my LQ friends. Regards. |
Your user agent string isn't showing your OS. Chrome and Firefox both do not have the OS in the user agent. I have heard that Opera works, though.
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Testing that Opera works...
Edit: Apparently not for me... |
For Firefox:
You need to create a user.js file under your firefox homedir (~/.mozilla/firefox/<random characters>/user.js). The contents in my case (Slackware64) are: Code:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Slackware/Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1"); You need to start chrome with: Code:
chrome --user-agent="Slackware/Chrome Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US)" Regards |
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Edit: Nevermind, it doesn't appear to be reliable. |
To set this up on Opera, do the following:
In URL bar: Code:
opera:config Enter this in the field: Code:
Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; <your distro here>; en-US) Presto/2.7.62 Version/11.00 |
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Alex Brinister |
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Edit: Seeing as I'm not using Slackware right now. |
Are you using vanilla Chrome or Chromium? It doesn't seem to be working with Chromium. If I use that command-line argument, Chromium tells me that it's unable to connect to a proxy server (????).
Alex Brinister |
I'm using Chromium from the official repos.
Try this one: Code:
Arch/Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.81 Safari/537.1 Template: Code:
<OS>/Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux <arch_only_if_x64>) AppleWebKit/<webkit_ver> (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/<chrome_ver> Safari/<webkit_ver> |
Still the same proxy error.
Alex Brinister |
Maybe try it without Tor?
What is the error? Edit: Also, go into proxy settings and clear them if they aren't already. |
Ha, you got me!
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[fluffypony@0xffeDAEMONPAWNY1969 ~]$ chromium --user-agent="Arch/Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.81 Safari/537.1" Alex Brinister |
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