I noticed that when i'm using a linux distro and i post here my icon just shows up with a tux head instead of the distro's icon, i was wondering how to change this?

you don't, it's only configurable on the site side. If there's no specific one it will fall back to a tux icon, assuming it can tell it's Linux at any level that is. Jeremy may well be able to add one if it matters.

You'll probably need to set the useragent string. How to do that varies with distro and browser.

If your distro has an icon here, then setting the useragent string should get the distro icon on your posts. If there is no icon for your distro here, then acid_kewpie is right, its not something you can fix from setting the useragent string.

I use Slackware and debian, they both have an icon here. What's an useragent string?

p.s. thanks for the super fast reply guys

i'm using fedora 15 but my distro icon is never show here....
but i see other fedora icons on posts...
whats wrong with it...??

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8/#post3981584 & http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi.../#post3982837- these posts have links to threads that explain how to change the user agent in your browser(s).

i' using firefox 5.0 and fedora 15....when i search for in the section,i get following output...


can't figure it out actually...

should i create a new string..??

Well, I'm in the same situation as you are. I just created the string in firefox. So the only way to know if it works is to press that "Submit Reply" button, right? Let's see what happens...

Edit: It didn't work. I created a new string in about:config called general.useragent.extra.firefox with a value of Slackware/Firefox/5.0. Perhaps if I restart firefox??? I'll be right back...

Edit2: I'm back. Will it work this time?

Edit3: It doesn't work. Perhaps the general.useragent.extra.firefox is not the right one for this version of firefox (5.0). I go to this site and my user agent string shows as Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0. Suggestions anyone?

you'll have to make a new post to check whether it works or not.......
please view my thread....my problem is sorted now......

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Thank you dEnDrOn, I'll check it right away!

How does it look now?

Edit: It works! Thanks again dEnDrOn.

It's a Slackware orb.

For future reference, this thread has sort of become the "official" useragent testing thread.

didn't want to revive this but none of them threads said if you addd a new string, or edit an existing one?
i added the line,