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Otter Browser Forum / It comes on the Gentoo Linux live dvd...
Hello, to any of us who are brave enough to install this beast(both in a good and bad sense) of a Linux distribution... Anyways I was exploring Gentoo on an old Thinkpad x40 for my first time, when I noticed that Otter browser comes by default on the Gentoo Live DVD.

Ofc. that does not mean you get it just by intalling Gentoo, otter is only on the Live DVD. But it is still nice to know.
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Otter Browser Forum / Gstreamer dependencies?
First I must say that this latest appimage, '12.1' is fantastic. My only issue is with youtube ofc. It sends audio to my speakers insted of my headphones, and the headphones are set to be used by the system. Also there's no video(even though progress happened and now fullscreen works). Which gstreamer dependencies am I supposed to have?
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Otter Browser Forum / Debian packages?
I can't find the debian binaries for the latest releases anymore...
So wat's the best way to install otter on Linux now?
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Otter Browser Forum / How to install otter on Debian testing.
There is some packkaging troublee ATM with Debian testing in that some packages are stuck in unstable. That is not a problem for packages that are in the Debian repositories, but it is a problem for packages outside the repositories.

Luckily I found a workaround.

The packages that are missing for me were
libhunspell-1.3-0 and qtbase-abi-5-3-2(which is just a virtual package)

First I tried to install otter with gdebi so that it installs any and all dependencies it can install and tells me which ones I am missing.

I installed libhunspell by manually downloading libhunspell-1.3-0 from the unstable repository from here and then installing that package with gdebi:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/libhunspell-1.3-0
Then I did sudo apt install libqt5core5a (which provides functionalities that otter needs from the qtbase-abi
Unfortunately I could not install qtbase-abi-5-3-2 itself at all, so I just skipped that.
If you had any other missing dependencies you can install them by using the same methods I used.
Then I just in case uninstalled otter.
I reinstalled it by downloading the latest weekly package and doing sudo dpkg -i name-of-otters-deb-package.deb
And now I am writing this from my Otter-browser on Debian testing.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
Honestly no.
The document was not properly commented so I am lost as well. I suggest you just put font-size:x into elemnts and then go reapply the css in otters preferences until you get whatever result you want.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Otter Browser is the best lightweight web browser
I am happy that the Otter teams work is getting recognised.
However the problem with Otter and RAM comes from the fact that ~50% of Otter code is just pure QT. For those that don't know QT is a programmer tool that is used to create everything that your eye can see when using Otter, plus some other things as well. QT is what is called a GUI framework(but it has other functionality beyond just GUI).
While QT is maybe even the best GUI framework around, it never was or wanted to be lightweight. That is why when you launch Otter, Otter has to load so many QT libraries into RAM.
Optimisations can be done, but those would be probably very tough for our devs and they would take precious time that could be used for developing new features and bugfixing.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
background-color changes the background color of an element of the interface. color changes the color of the font.
You should use hexadecimal values for the colors but you can just use words like 'red'.
The problem is that there are lots of 'background-color' and 'color' to change. It took me an hour or two.
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
You know what, we are both right.
You are right because the font size really did change.
I was right because I did not change it myself, it was changed by the original css theme which I modified.

Anyways I have fixed it. Just download from the same link again.
Perhaps i should make versions with different font sizes. Maybe even different colors(although that would be a lot more work).
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
Aha, well I never changed that to be honest.(At least I don't think I did that) I just used Otters default.
Can you post a screenshot of how it looks on your machine?
Or do you want me to just increase the default font size(my css skills are rusty, but I am pretty sure this can be done)?
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Otter Browser Forum / Re: Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
You have to change the color manually in the .css file. When I started working on it there were no comments though, so I made it a bit easier by making at least some comments.(although even my comments could be better and more detailed)

It is GPL v3 licensed so I encourage everyone to download and modify it. If you can improve the comments and further research what does what in the css that would be great.

Quote from: ovas on

True road you go to one. Installed, I liked, but there was a problem too fine print on the menu and I would like to change the color. :cheers:

Have you tried changing your widget style? Although IDK how windows widget styles will function since I don't have a Windows box ATM.
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Otter Browser Forum / Blueotter css theme for Otter browser
https://github.com/mariokamenjak/blueotter
Hello guys, I have made a custom CSS theme for Otter browser. To use it, you just download the zip, unzip it and point otter to the CSS file from:
Tools>Preferences>Advanced>Appearance>Style sheet.
It works best with GTK+ or Fusion as widget styles.
Here is how it looks, be prepared for lots of light blue:



And although the original CSS from which I made this was completely uncommented, I have managed to mak some comments, so if you want to make your own custom CSS, it will be easier if you just modify my own.
Blueotter is a modification of the Darcula theme for QtCreator:
https://dndsanctuary.eu/index.php?topic=1694.0
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Otter Browser Forum / Youtube drains CPU
I know that this might be a backend problem with QT, however, as soon as I try to enter Youtube with Otter, Otters CPU usage rises for about 50% whenever youtube actually does anything.
I have a pretty strong Laptop, so although it should rise it should not rise so much.
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Otter Browser Forum / Stylesheets?
Are there any stylesheets for the otter UI?
If not is there a template which I can then edit? Or maybe even a tutorial on this? Are they CSS?