Changing Preferences

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### Program Preferences

The preferences dialog can be opened by the toolbar or through the "Program" menu. The dialog is divided into seven tabs described in the following text.

#### Feed Preferences

- Feed Cache Handling: Here you can set the default number of items to be saved for each subscription. Note that this setting can be overwritten for each subscription by setting the item cache size in the subscriptions properties.
- Feed Update Settings: Here you can set the default update interval for all subscriptions. If it is set to 0 auto-updating is disabled. Note that this setting can be overwritten for each subscription by setting the update interval in the subscriptions properties.
  The option button allows you to control the update behaviour after startup. You have three possibilities:
  - Update all out-dated subscriptions.
  - Update all subscriptions.
  - Don't update subscriptions and reset their update intervals.
- Feed Loading Settings: With this option you can influence the memory usage of Liferea. You can select wether to keep all subscription contents in memory or to load the contents from disk when needed.

#### Folder Preferences

- Folder Display Settings: With this checkbox you can control what Liferea loads into the item list when you click a folder. The default behaviour is not to change the item list contents. If you enable this option all items of all child subscriptions of the selected folder are loaded into the item list.
- Feed Icons (Favicons): This button allows you to trigger an update of all favicons of all subscriptions.

#### Headline Preferences

- Reading Headlines: Here you can set the hotkey for skimming through all unread headlines.
- Date Column Settings: Here you can configure the format of the date column of the item list. When using the user defined option you need to know about the format codes used for this feature (experienced users only! please refer to the strftime() manpage).

#### Browser Preferences

- Internal Browser Settings: Here you can configure three things. First you can select the browser module to be used to render the HTML of the item view. Then you can specify wether or not Liferea should open clicked links in the configured external browser or in the item HTML view. The third option allows you to switch off Javascript.
- External Browser Settings: When you click links in then item HTML view Liferea launches the a browser command you can define with this preferences. The first option button is to select your favourite browser or "Manual" for a user defined browser command. With the second option button you specify how the link is opened inside the previously selected browser.
  Only when selecting "Manual" as browser you can enter a browser command in the command entry. When entering a command don't forget to include a "%s" within the command which will be replaced with the URL that was clicked. Please keep in mind to double quote the place holder to avoid shell problems with the hash character (#) when launching the browser.

#### GUI Preferences

- Notification Settings: Enable the first checkbox if you want to use the notification area feature. This feature is also known as system tray icon. The program will add a icon to the active notification area application (as provided for GNOME and KDE) which will change when new items arrive and 'll be reset as soon the program is used again. The icon can be used to show the program window if currently hidden or hide the program window if it is visible.
  The second option allows you to enable a notification popup window which present a list of the titles of new headlines of updated subscriptions.
- Menu Settings: Here you can select wether you want to display both menu bar and tool bar or only one of them.

#### Proxy Preferences

- HTTP Proxy Server: Using this preference tab you can configure a HTTP proxy for Liferea. If you are a GNOME user don't use this tab and configure the proxy in the GNOME preference (if not already done). Liferea will then automatically use the GNOME proxy preferences.
  Currently Liferea does not allow you to specify host not to be accessed with the configured proxy.

#### Enclosures Preferences

This tab allows you to configure how Liferea should handle enclosures. If you are still unsure what enclosures are about please read the Enclosures/Podcasting section first.

- Downloading Enclosures: Here you specify which download tool Liferea should use to download enclosures and in which path the downloaded files should be saved in.
- Opening Enclosures: Using the "Properties" and "Delete" button you can edit the list of known enclosures types. Typically you only want to do this if you want to remove or change program associations. You don't need to create this definitions manually because Liferea will create a new one and ask you which program to use when you open or save a type of enclosures.

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