December 2025 - Dillo-dev - lists.mailman3.com

Re: Remote control socket (experimental)

by Bobby Hiltz

Hello, On Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:29:03 +0100 Rodrigo Arias <rodarima(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have just merged the support to control dillo from a UNIX control > socket. There is now a new program called "dilloc" to send commands > from the CLI. > ... > I think it will also be useful for users. I have been looking forward to this since I saw the demo on Mastodon. I am sure that I'll find a use. > Let me know if you find something that doesn't work well, it is > experimental for now. Not a big deal, but I did need to manual make the ~/.dillo/ctl directory. It is possible that I missed that part in the instructions. Best, Bobby Hiltz

Dec. 20, 2025

Remote control socket (experimental)

by Rodrigo Arias

Hi, I have just merged the support to control dillo from a UNIX control socket. There is now a new program called "dilloc" to send commands from the CLI. If there is only one dillo process it will choose it, otherwise it needs to be specified in the DILLO_PID env var. Use "dilloc help" to see all the commands available. It needs to be enabled at configure time with --enable-control-socket. The origin of this feature is to improve the test suite by controlling dillo automatically, but I think it will also be useful for users. In particular, the load and dump commands allow the manipulation of any loaded page as a UNIX pipeline: % dilloc dump | <manipulate-cmd> | dilloc load Or go to an alternative page from the current URL: % dilloc open $(dilloc url | sed 's/www\.reddit/old.reddit/') Let me know if you find something that doesn't work well, it is experimental for now. Best, Rodrigo.

Dec. 19, 2025

Re: CJK Fonts

by Bobby Hiltz

Hi, On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:49:56 +0000 <a1ex(a)dismail.de> wrote: > Do you have the desired font configured in ~/.dillo/dillorc ? > > Something like this should work (assuming you have the font available > in your OS): > > font_sans_serif="Noto Sans JP" Thanks. It is "Noto Sans CJK JP" on Debian like Rodrigo said. That will have to be my solution for those times I need to visit sites with Japanese (or other CJK fonts) until font substitution support is available. Best, Bobby

Dec. 15, 2025

Re: CJK Fonts

by a1ex＠dismail.de

Hi, "B Hiltz" <bbbhltz(a)mailbox.org> wrote: > I think I have compiled something wrong on my end. When visiting sites > with CJK fonts (e.g. > https://www.unicode.org/standard/translations/japanese.html) none of > the characters display (just empty blocks). Do you have the desired font configured in ~/.dillo/dillorc ? Something like this should work (assuming you have the font available in your OS): font_sans_serif="Noto Sans JP" Regards, Alex

Dec. 14, 2025

Re: CJK Fonts

by Bobby Hiltz

Hello, Thank you both for your replies. > To make it work you can specify a font that has Japanese glyphs like Alex suggested or use a CSS rule in ~/.dillo/style.css in case the site doesn't use "sans-serif" as the font. I will try both of these solutions. Best, Bobby Hiltz (Sorry, I've switched email aliases so that might lead to delays or mix-ups in the mailing list.)

Dec. 14, 2025

Re: CJK Fonts

by Rodrigo Arias

Hi, On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 10:49:56PM +0000, a1ex(a)dismail.de wrote: >Hi, > >"B Hiltz" <bbbhltz(a)mailbox.org> wrote: > >> I think I have compiled something wrong on my end. When visiting sites >> with CJK fonts (e.g. >> https://www.unicode.org/standard/translations/japanese.html) none of >> the characters display (just empty blocks). This email didn't reach my inbox or spam folder (maybe gmail delayed it). >Do you have the desired font configured in ~/.dillo/dillorc ? > >Something like this should work (assuming you have the font available in >your OS): > >font_sans_serif="Noto Sans JP" You can use fc-match to see what a given font resolves to in your system. As I don't have Noto, it resolves DejaVu which doesn't handle Japanese either: % fc-match 'Noto Sans JP' DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book" This is the same problem I described in fedi for Emojis: https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/115702790786501718 https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/115702838816687466 To make it work you can specify a font that has Japanese glyphs like Alex suggested or use a CSS rule in ~/.dillo/style.css in case the site doesn't use "sans-serif" as the font. I tried myself installing noto-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk, but then: % fc-match 'Noto Sans JP' NotoSans-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans" "Regular" Doesn't find it, it seems to be called "Noto Sans CJK JP": % fc-match 'Noto Sans CJK JP' NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc: "Noto Sans CJK JP" "Regular" So this did it for me: % grep Noto ~/.dillo/dillorc font_sans_serif="Noto Sans CJK JP" Hopefully this won't be needed in FLTK 1.4, which has font substitution support (it will find a fallback font in your system that has Japanese). Best, Rodrigo.

Dec. 14, 2025

CJK Fonts

by B Hiltz

Hello, I think I have compiled something wrong on my end. When visiting sites with CJK fonts (e.g. https://www.unicode.org/standard/translations/japanese.html) none of the characters display (just empty blocks). Running v3.2.0-92-g527846a3 on Debian 13. Also, thank you for keeping Dillo going. I only use it once or twice a week but it is a great tool to have. Best regards, Bobby Hiltz

Dec. 14, 2025

Re: dillo.org get back

by Jesse Lawton

Actually the website is apparantly hosted by Google Cloud. So maybe you could use their abuse form to get the website at least taken down. -- Thanks Jesse Lawton

Dec. 12, 2025

Re: dillo.org get back

by Jesse Lawton

> I have just contacted the Registrar, I didn't realized the name of the > company was literally "Withheld for Privacy". Hah, thats odd. Here though (https://who.is/whois/dillo.org) it shows spaceship as the registrar. -- Thanks Jesse Lawton

Dec. 12, 2025

Re: dillo.org get back

by Rodrigo Arias

Hi, On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 10:02:32PM +0000, Jesse Lawton wrote: >Ok, yeah it would be good to get it back sometime for the prime purpose >that it misleads users into thinking its the website. >I might try doing some more work getting it back ;) I have just contacted the Registrar, I didn't realized the name of the company was literally "Withheld for Privacy". Best, Rodrigo.

Dec. 11, 2025