Porteus

I am using DuckDuckGo exclusively for my internet searches, and am very happy with the lack of junk I would need to weed through if I were using Google. Thanks to Porteus for that.

I am curious if there is any other avenue for someone to help the Porteus ship to continue sailing. My wife controls our money, but not in a bad way. I have read posts here and there about t-shirts and other stuff, helping wean people off of Windows and posting on other forums. Is there something more one can do without coding knowledge?

Vic

I cannot help with the other stuff, but I can give heads up to ddg; When FFx appends "t=porteus" into the search URL, then Port gets some money, if it doesn't, then Port gets nothing.

(You have to insert that into your duckduckgo*.xml, that sits in browser/searchplugin [wherever your browser is installed into] to include <Param name="t" value="porteus"/> But cave! You have to edit it as root, and Firefox must not run at the time.)

Hi Rava. Thank you for the information.

I found two xml files: duckduckgo and duckduckgo-lite. When opening them up with Kwrite there is this message:

"The file /mnt/live/memory/images/mozilla-firefox-45.3.0esr-i686-1gv.xzm/usr/src/mozilla-firefox-45.3.0esr/duckduckgo.xml was opened and contained lines longer than the configured Line Length Limit (4,096 characters). Those lines were wrapped and the document is set to read-only mode, as saving will modify its content."

The files are in the images folder because I am using a firefox module.

It seems I will need to modify the Firefox module. A new adventure, YAY!

Vic

Vic wrote:"The file /mnt/live/memory/images/mozilla-firefox-45.3.0esr-i686-1gv.xzm/usr/src/mozilla-firefox-45.3.0esr/duckduckgo.xml was opened and contained lines longer than the configured Line Length Limit (4,096 characters). Those lines were wrapped and the document is set to read-only mode, as saving will modify its content."

Oh yes, I forgot, I saw it but it was no issue for mousepad or geany... At least I think it was no issue, since the file is like it should be, I did not actually edit it. The last time I did so, it was a version without the inline icon. That's the reason one line is so bloated...

Vic wrote:It seems I will need to modify the Firefox module. A new adventure, YAY!

No, you can put it into the correct path/filename when using porteus/rootcopy. But I only advise you doing so when you have a Linux-FS for the boot medium, aka ext2 or ext3, not vfat or ntfs aka fuseblk .

On the other hand, it is good when you start making your own modules. Best start with very small changes and move on from there.

Thanks, Rava.

I will acquire mousepad and geany to try editing. I forgot about rootcopy even though I use it for firefox. I use ext4, so I should be OK.

Vic

I think I should start a new thread, because my little adventure is becoming deeper than expected. Finding the "T=porteus" is harder than I was hoping.

I do not want to hijack my own thread.

Vic

If I insert "t=porteus" into the DDG url when I am on another operating system, like MS Windows using internet exploder, does Porteus get anything from it?

That would be funny. And cool.

Vic

You can open most browsers and go into the area where you 'manage search engines'. In there you can set the default search: Screenshot: https://s30.postimg.org/9wg8fgqpd/Scree ... _41_17.png

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=porteus

I'm pretty sure you can also enter into the url box of a browser prior to a desired search string.

For example to search for "how to have fun" into the browser's url box enter: and press Enter.

This doesn't change the browser's default search engine but does use DDG with Porteus for the search.

I like being able to manually enter the "t=porteus" . if I am on a library computer, for instance.

On my home computers I save the url as a bookmark, which enables the "t=porteus" automagically.

Thanks for the info.

Vic

I'm pretty sure you can also enter into the url box of a browser

Yes you can. Just showing the right tool for the job.