## Newsboat FAQ

## 1. I get errors like "‘color01’ is not a valid color"

Numbers that start with zero are treated as octal; starting with Newsboat 2.10, these are not allowed since they only add confusion.

Convert octal numbers to decimal, and drop the leading zero. For example, `color01` should be replaced with `color1`, `color016` with `color14` etc.

## 2. I want to have a feed that contains all unread articles of all feeds

This is supported since Newsbeuter 0.7. All you need to do is add the following line to your `~/.newsboat/urls` file:

    "query:Unread Articles:unread = \"yes\""

For details, refer to the documentation on query feeds.

## 3. After I open a link in the browser, Newsboat stays unresponsive until the browser is closed

Newsboat has to behave like that in order to accomodate users of text-based browsers like lynx and w3m. It has to relinquish the terminal and stay out of the way, otherwise people won’t be able to see their browsers.

If you’re using a GUI browser like Firefox, you can do one of two things:

1. Start your browser beforehand. This way, Newsboat will only wait a fraction of a second (while a new tab is being opened).

2. Wrap your browser in a script and use the script as Newsboat’s browser.

   Put this in `~/bin/newsboat-browser.sh`:

       #/bin/sh
       /usr/bin/firefox "$@" &

   Make it executable:

       $ chmod +x ~/bin/newsboat-browser.sh

   Then add the following line to your Newsboat’s config:

       browser "~/bin/newsboat-browser.sh"