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@lufte, I mkdir /usr/X11R7/lib and linked the file as per your instruction. Vimini launched ok! YAY! As to the font problem, it might be due to OpenBSD's lack of TrueType font in default install? You could try pkg_add ibm-plex noto-fonts. Because I did a pkg_info, it shows these are the only font I have installed from package repo. (noto is pulled in bu chromium as dep)
Apr 15 · 4 weeks ago
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 15 at 01:42:
Great to know @decant! I just solved the font issue, and now it launches but without rendering any text at all. But if it works ok for you I'm happy :D
@lufte, I like the color scheme, the lower level of saturation in the creamy background reminded me of Rob Pike's ACME. I looked at the font picked by vimini more closely, it is ibm-plex. Many thanks for bring this fine piece of software to OpenBSD!
@lufte I really hate to say it, but, try pkg_install chromium >_< . and try to launch vimini
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 15 at 14:09:
@decant bingo! Installing the IBM Plex fonts did the trick. Now I can say that OpenBSD is fully supported, hah. Thanks for the tip!
I love it! it was easy to get it compiled and running on MacOS. the experience is about as good as qutebrowser itself.
oh hang on, I tried to insert a line break there, haha. I'm writing this from Vimini itself! looks like it doesn't yet support multiline inputs? and just one other thing is that typing `:` doesn't get it to open the command prompt for me. everything else works fine, I was easily able to set my colorscheme to catpuccin-mocha too
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 17 at 14:21:
@hedy thank you for your kind words. Getting close to qutebrowser itself is the ultimate goal, so I really appreciate it. You're right about multiline inputs, the GUI toolkit I use has just made them available in its last version so they'll come to Vimini soon. I'm worried about ':' not working though, I may contact you over email (if that's okay with you) to try to see why that is so.
@lufte On startup, Vimini complains about can't find something something sqlite, when scary red text, I cd to ~/.local/share and mkdir vimini and the problem is gone, bookmark saving works now. For some reason the directory isn't created automatically. Might as well be I messed up permission setting. As far as I can tell, Vimini now fully works on OpenBSD . Thank you!
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 18 at 02:41:
You're absolutely right @decant. I was just trying a fresh build of vimini on a mac, to test the behavior explained by hedy, and I noticed that the data direcroty (where the sqlite db is stored) is not created automatically when it prefectly could. The config directory is (if you run the config-write command), so there's no reason to do the same with this one. I'll get to work, thanks!
🚀 blah_blah_blah · Apr 19 at 16:29:
The issue with the config and help is to lower the bar for participation. Not everyone can do basic config stuff, and not everyone can figure out how to bind '?' to help. Requiring people to add '?' as a help keybinding doesn't make a lot of sense since people who have already figured out how to change the keybindings probably don't need help. So 'f1' or '?' should be a default help. I notice there is no 'help' command either.
🛰️ lufte [OP] · Apr 19 at 19:47:
I think I get it now, and I agree, it's all about better defaults to improve usability. I thought you were talking about pre-build config. Yes, to be honest I haven't put much effort into making the first experience pleasant enough. A more comprehensive "quickstart" tutorial should see the first thing a new user sees, and help should be more accessible through commands. I'll come up with something for 0.6. Thanks!
I did release 0.5.1 to address some of the bugs that were mentioned in this thread as well, so thanks everyone for your feedback!
Vimini 0.5.0 — I'm releasing a new version of my browser, with added support for Gopher and other niceties. I've also added build instructions and a short demo video to its README. Up next I'm planning to rewrite the network code so it handles incoming data in a more stream-like fashion, instead of downloading it all and then parse it, which would support long-lived TCP connections (like the one chat.mozz.us uses) or downloads. If you manage to run it on a non-linux system let me know! I haven'...