qutebrowser

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qutebrowser is a web browser with vim-style key bindings based off the QtWebKit (or the QtWebEngine in its latest release). It is lightweight using a minimal GUI and is inspired by software such as Vimperator and dwb. It uses DuckDuckGo as the default search engine.

qutebrowser was developed by Florian Bruhin, for which he received a CH Open Source award in 2016.

Installation

USE flags

USE flags for www-client/qutebrowser Keyboard-driven, vim-like browser based on Python and Qt

`adblock`	Enable Brave's ABP-style adblocker library for improved adblocking
`pdf`	Add general support for PDF (Portable Document Format), this replaces the pdflib and cpdflib flags
`qt6`	Use Qt6 that provides a newer Chromium version
`test`	Enable dependencies and/or preparations necessary to run tests (usually controlled by FEATURES=test but can be toggled independently)
`widevine`	Unsupported closed-source DRM capability (required by Netflix VOD)

Data provided by the Gentoo Package Database · Last update: 2023-03-18 23:22 More information about USE flags

Turn off the bindist flag to enable support for proprietary codecs on WebEngine.

Emerge

root #emerge --ask www-client/qutebrowser

Troubleshooting

Proprietary Codecs

To get proprietary codecs to work, turn off USE=-bindist for dev-qt/qtwebengine in /etc/portage/package.use - see Handbook.

Once the use flag is properly set in the file, re-emerge qtwebengine. Remember to use the --oneshot parameter so as to not add the dependency to the world file:

root #emerge --ask --oneshot dev-qt/qtwebengine

root #emerge --ask www-client/qutebrowser

Video or sound not working well

root #emerge --ask --verbose media-libs/gst-plugins-{base,good,bad,ugly,libav}

No sound with Pipewire

To hear sound when Pipewire is used, turn on pipewire-alsa for media-video/pipewire in /etc/portage/package.use.

FILE /etc/portage/package.useRead this for more information

media-video/pipewire pipewire-alsa

After the USE flag is set properly, re-emerge Pipewire:

root #emerge --ask media-video/pipewire

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