Welcome to Dillo 0.8.6

Introduction:

We really hope you enjoy using Dillo. Please bear in mind that although it's very stable, it's still beta.

Before you get started exploring the www using this program, be sure to keep an eye on the hints and tricks we collected here and which probably will answer some questions that could come to your mind later. :)

Basic things:

• You can tell a link from plain content by the hand-shaped cursor.
• Besides browsing the web, Dillo also has basic file browsing capabilities included. So, entering file: in your Dillo URL window will give you the contents of your current working directory, and file:~ entered in the same place will point your Dillo browser right to your home directory...
• Dillo, at this stage of development, yet is not ready to render pages that utilize frames. Nevertheless, it comes with a tiny handler (lynx/w3m like) that will let you choose wich frame to visit, one by one.
• Dillo has context sensitive menus using the right mouse button (available on pages, links, images, the Back and Forward buttons, and bug meter).
• Some of the functions in Dillo are handled by independent processes. For instance, downloads come through wget. If Dillo crashes, or simply exits, the download will survive! (more details below).

Usage:

• You can scroll around your Dillo main window using CTRL+{PgUp|PgDwn|Home|End} or using the mouse middle button. If nothing happens when keys are pressed, try focussing your Dillo main window, first, by clicking it (not on any link!:)).
• You can use the space key as PgDn, and {'b' | 'B'} as PgUp.
• Same way, you can use "," and "." as shortcuts for forward and backward buttons (mnemonic: those keys are usually labeled "<" and ">").
• Ctrl+B and ";" serve as shortcuts for bookmarks.
• Whenever you feel like customizing your Dillo browser or are somewhat unhappy with the way it looks or acts, you might want to check your dillorc file (if you don't have a copy of it on your ~/.dillo/ directory, get it here). It holds quite an amount of options on how to configure appearance and behaviour of the D. This file is very well commented, so you won't feel lost moving around in there.
• Clicking the "Reload" button always will request an end-to-end reload of the site currently viewed, but it will *not* reload embedded images during this process.
• Dialogs can be closed with the ESC key.
• Following the desires of modern desktop users, Dillo also features removable control panels, so you are able to rip the main menu, the URI window and the navigation bar out of the program main window (by dragging them from the leftmost part) and place them wherever you want on your desktop.
• The whole window area can be used to display the pages. Just click on the lower right corner icon, or double-click on an empty area!

Downloads:

Downloads are made using wget through the dpi framework. Starting from Dillo-0.8.6 there's a FLTK2-based GUI for downloads.

If you're not a developer pick a binary package of Dillo-0.8.6 for your distribution and that's it!

If you want to compile it, you'll need FLTK2 installed (SVN revision 4898 is recommended).

If you don't want the FLTK2 GUI at all, use:

    ./configure --disable-dlgui
    

Find text:

This one is very useful; it can be found in the right-mouse-button menu
Find text is tuned for speed so don't hesitate to use it even for the minimal searches.

Semantics:

• You can search for substrings, words and sentences.
• To find a substring or word, just enter its text.
• To find a left-aligned substring, preceed it with a space.
• To find a right-aligned substring, append a space to it.
• To find full words only, preceed and append spaces to them.
• To find a sentence, enter its words and remember that the above rules apply for every word in it.

Dillo will scroll the page and highlight found text!

Shortcut: "/" or [CTRL]+"F".

Copy&Paste:

Very easy: just hold the left mouse button and move to mark a selected area. To paste, go to the target application and press the middle mouse button.

If you want to select more than one screen, hold the mouse button pressed and scroll with PgUp, PgDn or the arrow keys.

If you want to paste an URL into Dillo, do it on the "clear-URL" button (the one next to the location bar).

Navigation history:

Currently, navigation history supports the navigation-stack model; just right-click on the Back or Forward buttons and they will popup!

Remember:

• These history menus are relative to the current page.
• They show the page-title but the status bar shows the URL.
• Left-click jumps to the selected item.
• Middle-click opens the item in a new browser window.

Cookies:

Because of privacy considerations, cookies are disabled by default in dillo. That is, if you just compile and use dillo, it will reject every single cookie sent to it!

If you want to know how to enable cookies in dillo, please read Cookies.txt. It explains everything in a brief and clear way (it's just a matter of setting up cookiesrc).

Bookmarks:

Starting from dillo-0.7.0, bookmarks are handled with the new dpi framework. This should be transparent to the end user. Please note that:

• It is a good idea to keep a backup of your ~/.dillo/bm.txt
• The server will stay alive after closing dillo.
• You can stop the server anytime sending it a KILL signal. Dillo will automatically restart it on demand.
• If you don't have root access, install dpid and the dpis inside your ~/.dillo/ directory as explained in the README file.

Bug Meter:

Dillo's Bug meter shows the number of detected bugs inside the page. The bugs are catched at parsing time, and therefore the error messages also show the line where they occur and provide a hint of what was expected instead!

The primary goal of the bug meter is to help webmasters and page authors to polish the contents of their sites with a view to make them standards compliant.

The Bug meter is located at the lower right corner of Dillo. Left-click to see the messages, right-click for a menu.

(tell me more).

Keyboard shortcuts:

Shortcut             Mnemonic          Function
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Ctrl-L              "Ctrl-Location"   (enter a new URL)
Ctrl-U              "Ctrl-URL"        (edit the URL)
Ctrl-F              "Ctrl-Find"       (find text)
Ctrl-S              "Ctrl-Search"     (search the web)
Ctrl-R              "Ctrl-Reload"     (reload current page)
Ctrl-N              "Ctrl-New"        (New browser window)
Ctrl-O              "Ctrl-Open"       (Open file)
Ctrl-H              "Ctrl-Hide"       (Hide/show controls)
Ctrl-B     or ";"   "Ctrl-Bookmarks"  (view bookmarks)
Ctrl-Q              "Ctrl-Quit"       (quit window)
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Back       or ","   "<"               (previous page)
Shift-Back or "."   ">"               (next page)
Esc                 "escape"          (close dialog)
Alt-F               "File"            (file menu)
Alt-X               "eXit"            (exit Dillo)
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