After selecting a subscription all headlines (also referred as items) of this subscription will appear as a list in the right upper pane. If you select an item, its content will be displayed in the item view below the item list. If you selected the condensed view (two pane mode) Liferea shows all item contents at once ommitting the item list. You can toggle this behaviour by selecting "Condensed View" from either the item lists or the item views context menu.
The following text describes all options available for the displayed items. Note: Not all of these options are available from within the condensed view!
To open the link the item refers to double click on the item or for keyboard users select the item and press return. Note that not each item provides a link! If the item provides a link the item title text in the item views header box is a hyperlink.
To learn how to configure the browser that is used to open links refer to the "Program Preferences" section of this help feed!
A headline has a read state. Unread items are marked bold. If you click on an item the read status changes to read and the items list entry text style becomes regular. This features also works if you use the keyboard.
Sometimes you may not want to read the headlines of a subscription. To mark all unread at once select "Mark all as unread" from either the items menu or the context menu of the item list.
There is also the possibility to change back the item read status. Select "Toggle Read Flag" from the items menu or click the headline with the third mouse button to achieve this.
Liferea allows you to mark items with a flag. This is useful to easily find these items and to prevent them from being dropped from the cache when aging. To do so select "Toggle Flag" from the item menu or click the icon column of the headline list with the third mouse button.
![]() | The icon used for flagging items. |
When using this feature by either clicking the button in the toolbar or using the hotkey (Ctrl-N) you will be able to access all unread items very fast. The program will first jump to the next unread item in the currently displayed item list and when there are no unread items it will select the first unread item in the first feed of the feed list that contains unread items.
There is the possibility to search all items which contain a specific literal either in their title or their content by using the search box. Please refer to the "Searching" section of this help feed!
By selecting "Remove All Items" from the items menu you can clear the item cache of the currently selected feed. If you only want to remove a single by choosing the "Remove Selected" option.
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