I know, CSS can be hard to grasp, especially if you attempt to come up with something that will work moderately well on all major browsers, but please, listen to this one request:

If you have no clue, don’t upload themes that break spectacularly as soon as you stretch the browser window by more than 10 pixels. I am fed up with having to fix themes that are beyond fixing. Thank you.

There’s an useful guide for building the plugin here, but I found that some lose ends still needed to be patched up.

For one, the plugin apparently hasn’t been updated in a while, so some function calls still reference old irssi structures and functions. Naturally, these don’t compile with irssi 0.8.15, which is the latest version as of this writing. For those issues, I compiled a patch with various fixes here. This isn’t exactly a perfect fix, but should do in most cases. (The name is still 0.8.14 as that is the version it was originally written for, but it still applies cleanly for 0.8.15)

ac_python_devel.m4 can be downloaded from various sources, for example from this project. pyconstants.c is supposed to be generated with awk -f src/constants.awk src/constants.txt > src/pyconstants.c.

There is one more catch that isn’t mentioned in above guide: The plugin tries to load irssi_startup.py on startup, which will have to be on a specific path to be found. Without any parameters to ./configure, that will be /usr/local/share/irssi/scripts. So, if you’d rather have it in /usr/share/irssi/scripts (this is where my distribution places scripts, at least), you have to explicitly specify this when calling ./configure:

./configure --with-irssi=<path to irssi sources> \
    --datadir=/usr/share

After that, make should (hopefully) work and libpython.so will be placed in src/.libs/. This file should be moved to irssi’s module directory, which should be /usr/lib/irssi/modules or /usr/local/lib/irssi/modules, depending on distribution. Copy irssi_startup.py and irssi.py from src/ to the data directory you specified above, and irssi should be able to load the Python plugin without problems via /load python.

I’m not going to completely fix it again, so you’ll just have to do with this somewhat faggy style.

Screenshot

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4chan Backwash for Opera, Version 1.2c

Installation instructions

See installation instructions here.

Changelog

01/22/2009 – Version 1.0a. Tested and working with Opera 9.6. Fixed a serious bug with scrolling to the wrong position when clicking a quote.

01/23/2009 – Version 1.1. Now works with fychan by sneakily re-attaching event listeners when the document was modified.

01/27/2009 – Version 1.2. Now also shows quotes pointing to the thread starter.

01/28/2009 – Version 1.2a. Somewhat fixed quirky display for posts quoting the thread starter.

02/01/2009 – Version 1.2b. Minor changes to prevent functions and variables from leaking outside of Backwash’s namespace.

01/09/2010 – Version 1.2c. Should work for the new URL layout now.

Sample settings (based on real-life /a/)

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4chan Filter for Opera, Version 1.3a

Installation instructions

Set up an userscript directory for Opera. This option can be accessed using Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Content -> JavaScript Options. After you’ve selected a directory, simply drop the .js file there and the script should load automatically.

Things to note

• All values are interpreted as regular expressions, meaning that some special characters will not work as expected when entered. Those are, for example, .+^$?*[]{}(). Such characters should be escaped with backslash unless you actually know what you’re doing.
• Since Opera doesn’t provide a way to store variables over a period of time, this script uses cookies to save settings. This means that a) if you disabled cookies nothing will work and b) if you set up Opera to delete new cookies on exit, all your settings will be gone the next time you start your browser.

Changelog

01/21/2009 – Version 1.0. Tested and working with Opera 9.6. Reports indicate it also works with Opera 10.

01/22/2009 – Version 1.1.

• Added toggle to sticky or unsticky control panel
• Fixed mouseover/mouseout for control panel
• All strings are precompiled to RegExps
• Added apply and reset buttons

02/01/2009 – Version 1.2. Improved support for fychan. Still some rough edges though. The post counter isn’t corrected after expanding a thread, and the `Reset page’ button destroys fychan. Nothing to be done about the latter since fychan always executes after this script.

02/02/2009 – Version 1.2a. Fixed new settings not taking effect unless the page was reloaded.

01/09/2010 – Version 1.3a. Updated some code which I don’t remember the significance of, and changed URL layout to conform to 4chan’s new URL scheme.

Win32 Comix Starter (obsolete, only works for Python 2.5)

Update: MComix, a fork of Comix, has superior Windows integration and comes with an installer that automatically generates an executable wrapper.

dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper /path/to/file 7

The integer after the file path is the tiling mode, and mapped one-to-one to the choices in the KDE wallpaper selection dialog, meaning that the following options are available:

1. Centered
2. Tiled
3. Centered Tiled
4. Centered Maxpect
5. Maxpect Tiled
6. Scaled
7. Centered Autofit
8. Scale & Crop

It adds some more advanced functionality like buttons to delete/report posts without having to go to the bottom of the page. With the current version it is also possible to `hide’ threads, a feature from the 4chan extension for Firefox that is sorely missed by Opera users.

Download: 4chan.js, 02/06/09

Has to be placed into your Opera UserJS directory, which can be set up under Preferences > Advanced > Content > JavaScript Options.

Full list of features

• Kills any iframes (you know who you are)
• Also kills any <embed> tags to prevent, for example, background sound caused by Flash objects.
• `Fixes’ quoting, that is, the comment box now properly advances to a new line after clicking on a post id. Also note that you can CTRL-click post ids to prevent the window from jumping up to the comment box.
• Adds buttons to delete, report and hide posts/threads.
• Also adds noko and sage boxes next to the e-Mail text control.

Notes on compatibility with fychan.js

The buttons to delete, report and hide posts do not work with fychan. Might or might not work on a fix for this in the future.