Chapter 13. Reading Newsfeeds with Liferea¶
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Liferea is a news aggregator for receiving and reading online newsfeeds. It provides GNOME users a fast, easy-to-use interface for reading Internet newsfeeds and blogs.
13.1. Starting Liferea¶
To start Liferea, click +++.
By default, the Liferea interface is divided into two sections: the feed list and the item list. The feed list, on the left, contains a list of your subscriptions. When you click on a subscription, the headlines for that subscription appear in the item list, on the right. When you click on a headline, the contents of that feed appear in the view pane, beneath the item list.
Drag the borders between each pane to resize the panes for a more comfortable viewing.
13.2. Reading a Newsfeed¶
Liferea comes preconfigured to receive newsfeeds from Novell® Cool Solutions™ and Novell Technical Information. To read one of these example feeds:
Start Liferea as described in Section 13.1, “Starting Liferea”.
In the Feed List, click the subscription you want to read.
For example, click ++.
Click a headline in the Item List.
Unread headlines appear in bold text. When you click a headline, the selected item opens for reading in the view pane.
Unlike many news aggregators, Liferea lets you read news even if you are offline. After headlines are fed to Liferea, you can read the items, whether you are online or not. You must be online, however, to update your newsfeeds with the latest headlines.
13.3. Creating a New Subscription¶
You can subscribe to feeds from many locations on the Internet. These include news and information services, blogs, discussion forums, and more. This section describes how to add a subscription. The example in the following procedure shows how to subscribe to the CNN* Top Stories newsfeed, but the process is very similar for most feed providers.
Start Liferea as described in Section 13.1, “Starting Liferea”.
Obtain the URL for the desired feed.
For example, to obtain the CNN newsfeed URL:
Open your browser and go to http://www.cnn.com.
Scroll down near the bottom of the CNN page, then click .
Locate the URL for the Top Stories feed in the list provided by CNN and copy it.
For this example, the URL is http://rss.cnn.com/rss/cnn_topstories.rss.
In Liferea, click +.
Paste the URL into the field.
Click .
Enter a name for the feed and the amount of time you want to pass before the feed is checked for updates, then click OK.
The newsfeed is added to the Feed List. Any headlines are downloaded and added to the Item List.
13.4. Updating Subscriptions¶
Subscriptions are updated with the latest headlines according to the time interval you set when you created the subscription. You can also update your subscriptions manually, before the interval has passed.
You have the following choices:
- Update all subscriptions at once
Click +.
- Update all subscriptions within a folder or update a specific subscription
Click +
13.5. For More Information¶
For more information about using Liferea, click or refer to the official Liferea home page at http://liferea.sourceforge.net/.