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Liferea, a simple and free desktop news aggregator for Unix and Linux.

Liferea is an abbreviation for Linux Feed Reader, a news aggregator for online news feeds. It supports the major feed formats including RSS/RDF and Atom and can import and export subscription lists in OPML format. Liferea is intended to be a fast, easy to use, and easy to install news aggregator for GTK+ that can be used with the GNOME desktop.

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Notification icon always the same, even when Liferea has new items

As you can see on this screenshot, the icon circled in red is always the same, whether Liferea has zero new items (left side), or has new items (right side). Why not have different icons depending on whether there are new items or not? Is…
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Exporting thunderbird RSS feeds to liferea

I use thunderbird as my primary RSS feed reader. Lately thunderbird has been very slow to load and very sluggish. I want to try out liferea. Is there any way to export my subscriptions to liferea (OPML or otherwise)?
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Where does Liferea stores user data?

On which folder(s) Liferea stores user data (subscriptions and articles)? There is a folder named .liferea_1.8 in my home but it does not contain any user data. The goal is to synchronise that folder with a cloud service so that Liferea accesses…
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How can I force new windows to open in background & without focus?

I have Opera set as my default browser but it is the same for Firefox. When opening a link in Liferea, the link opens in an external browser and the browser gets focus. I would like to open the links in background (so that the browser does not get…
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Message indicator for liferea missing in Ubuntu 12.10?

How do I get back How to get back message indicator for liferea in Ubuntu 12.10?
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Liferea invisible after trying to start it

Running latest Ubuntu on a Dell Laptop. After clicking on Liferea icon on left-side Unity menu, icon starts to flash with background blinking in silver. After a few minutes silver background stops flashing, becomes permanent, but no Liferea. Ideas…
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Can I throttle Liferea?

After I log in, my laptop takes a really long time to load. Watching top, it seems like one thing that is using a ton of juice is Liferea. I do want it to sync my feeds, but I'm wondering if there's a good way to throttle it so that it doesn't use…
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How to multiselect in liferea?

The only reason why I didn't use liferea instead of rssowl is that I don't know how to select several newsitems for deleting. Because there isn't a "delete all"-functionality I have to select each headline, which loads the content, which is wasted;…
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How do I get Liferea 1.8 RC to use the global application menu?

I just updated Liferea from 1.6 to 1.8 RC thru PPA. After the update Liferea disappeared from Unitys Global Message indicator in the top menu. Also there is no standalone icon in Unity. In Gnome classic Liferea 1.8 RC shows an icon in the top Menu.…
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Can I make Liferea faster?

Is there any way to make Liferea faster in fetching feeds from Google Reader? It certainly could be a quality rss reader but in my case it's painfully slow.
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How do I disable comment fetching in Liferea?

While reading lifehacker, Liferea freezes on every single post loading the comments. Frankly, I do not really care for these, so how can I disable the loading all together?
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Liferea plain text downloads?

Have any Liferea (Linux feed reader) users been able to download plain text copies of their RSS feeds? I understand that it provides for offline viewing, so I assume that some sort of local caching is taking place, but don't know PHP so I can't…
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Can I rename Liferea feeds imported from Google?

I sync Liferea with Google Reader in order to only have to maintain my (lengthy) list of feeds in one place. Many of the feeds have annoyingly long names which I have renamed in Google Reader to be much shorter. However, it looks like Liferea is…
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Export iGoogle RSS and Import into liferea

I use igoogle for my rss reader, now i need to use Liferea on my Desktop and i need to Export my iGoogle rss and Import into liferea. I was trying export my rss from iGoogle (The default export format is .xml) but when i tried to import into …
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