[SOLVED] Why is my distro not showing up in posts?
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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.
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");
For Chrome:
You need to start chrome with:
Code:
chrome --user-agent="Slackware/Chrome Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US)"
Sorry but I don't run Opera, so I don't know how to change its user-agent string
Regards
Last edited by bathory; 08-24-2012 at 04:19 PM.
Reason: typo
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 (????).
Unable to connect to the proxy server
A proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary between your computer and other servers. Right now, your system is configured to use a proxy, but Chromium can't connect to it.
Here are some suggestions:
If you use a proxy server, check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to the wrench menu > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... and make sure your configuration is set to "no proxy" or "direct."
Error 130 (net::ERR_PROXY_CONNECTION_FAILED): Proxy server connection failed.
Go to the wrench menu > Settings > Show advanced settings... > Change proxy settings... and make sure your configuration is set to "no proxy" or "direct."
When running Chromium under a supported desktop environment, the system proxy settings will be used. However, either your system is not supported or there was a problem launching your system configuration.
But you can still configure via the command line. Please see man chromium for more information on flags and environment variables.
I think I'm having an issue with DBUS as well.
Code:
[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"
[16191:16204:22404881411:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(495)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
[16246:16249:22412211270:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(495)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get: object_path= /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
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