[SOLVED] What do I have to put in my agent string for this site to recognise me as a Slackware user?

hazel · 02-01-2020, 10:09 AM

The title says it all. I want that little blue mask in my profile.

Alien Bob · 02-01-2020, 10:47 AM

I think adding the word "Slackware" is sufficient.

Jeebizz · 02-01-2020, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien Bob

I think adding the words "Slackware Linux" is sufficient.

Not really, even a few years back prior to jumping over to Palemoon from Firefox, it stopped working - Palemoon doesn't work either so I gave up and stopped caring about something so inconsequential anyways.

Richard Cranium · 02-01-2020, 01:56 PM

This used to work for me...

Quote:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Slackware 14.2 Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

...but doesn't appear to now. Hmm.

EDIT: Now it shows up when I look. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

EDIT2: I have to refresh the page after I post or edit a message.

alekow · 02-01-2020, 06:01 PM

I want it too! Now I am tempted to test it...

Edit: Obviously did something wrong...
Edit 2: Yay! It works!

BW-userx · 02-01-2020, 06:16 PM

Looks like alekow put slackware first and only. that might be the trick. now I got a try it.

vtel57 · 02-01-2020, 07:15 PM

Sadly, it's not working for me.

AH! Yes it is!

BW-userx · 02-01-2020, 08:20 PM

I do not see mine working

what a do to get yours working???? ..

editing post.... done

I got a ? refresh then it went back to tux...

vtel57 · 02-01-2020, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BW-userx

I do not see mine working

what a do to get yours working???? ..

Quote:

In Mozilla Firefox, this option is buried on Firefox's about:config page.

To access the about:config page, type about:config into Firefox's address bar
and press Enter.

Type "useragent" into the filter box. Looking for the
"general.useragent.overridepreference", but it probably won't exist on your
system.

To create the preference, right-click on the about:config page, point to New,
and select String.

Name the preference "general.useragent.override".

Enter your desired user agent [ Mine is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;Slackware Linux x86_64;
rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 ] as the value of the preference.

NOTE: As someone said above, it only shows on your newly created posts or on edited posts. The older posts in the system remain with the generic penguin icon.

Luck with it!

~Eric

mlangdn · 02-01-2020, 08:31 PM

Hmmmm - here goes!

Worked for me!
Had to create the general.useragent.override string first.

vtel57 · 02-01-2020, 08:37 PM

Yup. We posted almost simultaneously.

hitest · 02-01-2020, 09:34 PM

Thanks for this. Got it working as well.

Regnad Kcin · 02-01-2020, 11:57 PM

? ? ?

FlinchX · 02-02-2020, 12:58 AM

If I wanted that, I would just ask the site owner. There's a forum section for that.

chrisretusn · 02-02-2020, 03:43 AM

For those that may be interested. I use Firefox.

There is an add-on called "Custom UserAgent String". This add-on allows you to specify the User Agent string on a site by site basis. As for what needed to be in the User Agent string, probably everyone has already figured it out though, is "Slackware" (case insensitive)

This is my normal UserAgent string:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0"

This is what is currently listed in Custom User Agent for this site:
"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0 Slackware"