nobody48sheldor / nightly-flask

A themed, minimal start page for web browsers, locally loadable with flask

for of :

https://github.com/damnitharshit/nightly

A minimal and configurable start page for the web browser of your choice.

Installation

For Chromium-based browsers

• Download New Tab Redirect.
• In your autostart script of your DE/WM, add export FLASK_APP=PATH/flask-local.py && flask run -p PORT
• Go to extension settings and set 127.0.0.1:PORT as Redirect URL.

For Firefox-based browsers

• Download New Tab Override.
• In your autostart script of your DE/WM, add export FLASK_APP=PATH/flask-local.py && flask run -p PORT
• Go to extension settings and set 127.0.0.1:PORT as Redirect URL.

NOTE : The blur effect in this project is applied with this CSS property which isn't enabled by default in firefox. Follow the steps on this guide to enable it manually and the blur should work fine.

FAQs

How do I change the settings?

Let's take the example of changing the background :

• You go on the internet, find an image and download it such that its path is /home/myusername/Downloads/myimg.png.
• You open our site and click on the settings icon.
• You click on the button labelled GENERAL.
• You enter /home/myusername/Downloads/myimg.png in the field under the label Background.

..and that's it! The image would have been applied to the background, and it'll stay that way until you clear your browser cache or move the image to another place.

How do I change the search engine ?

look through the code of flask-local.py and at the line return(redirect("https://search.brave.com/search?q={}&source=web".format(value))), you can change the url to use whatever search engine you want

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