Display options

This page controls the display and presentation of Awasu.

• Visual style
  Controls the overall appearance of Awasu.
• Show sidebar
  Shows the Sidebar window.

Browser windows

• Use
  Controls what Awasu will use as its embedded browser.
• Enable tabbed browsing
  Lets you have more than one browser window open at once.
• Window tabs
  Controls where window tabs will appear.
• Colored window tabs
  Shows window tabs using different colors.
• Default zoom
  Controls how large content will be when a browser window is first opened.
• Navbars
  Controls whether navbars should be initially visible or hidden when opening browser windows.
• Simple navbars
  Shows simplified navbars (to minimize clutter).

My Channels display options

• Auto-show My Channels
  Automatically shows My Channels when the last browser window is closed.
• Show unread item counts in My Channels
  Shows the number of unread items each channel has.

  Turning this on can slow Awasu down somewhat so you should try disabling it if you find that switching channel filters is slow.
• Show how many channels are in each My Channels folder
  Shows how many channels are in each folder.
• Always show channels with update errors in My Channels
  Channels that have had too many update errors will always be shown in My Channels, regardless of any channel filter settings.

Channel window display options

• Max. item pane size
  Limits the size of the channel window item panes.

  This option is provided so that they don't take too much space away from the browser pane. You can always override this limit by choosing the Size to fit context menu option (or pressing Control-F7) twice quickly in succession.
• Auto-hide feed items
  Automatically hides the item pane when feed items are opened.
• Brief headers
  Shows only a brief header in the channel summary pages.
• Brief feed items
  Shows only brief feed items in the channel summary pages.

Workpad display options

• Auto-show workpads
  Automatically shows workpads when items are added.
• Auto-hide workpads
  Automatically hides workpads when items are opened or removed.
• Auto-remove items from workpads
  Automatically removes items from workpads when they are opened.

My Searches options

• Show number of results
  Shows the number of results for each search agent.

Default content presentation

Awasu gives you a great deal of control over how your feed content is presented.

Here you can configure the default settings that will be used to control the presentation of each channel. These can be overridden individually for each channel in their Channel Properties dialog.

The template file controls the overall appearance of the channel summary pages. You can also configure which feed items you want to see, how far back you want to see them from and how the feed content should be presented. Feed items can either be shown one at a time, or as a river of news.

You can also add columns to item panes, highlight items of interest and modify the feed content before it is shown to you.