# RSS Help

The RSS plug-in displays news headlines from RSS or Atom feeds.

more about RSS at wikipedia.org

RSS directory at syndic8.com

more news feeds at newsisfree.com

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Click on a headline to open the corresponding article in your web browser.

Control-click (or right-click) a headline to open the contextual menu:

Context Menu

New articles are marked with , old articles (see Query Preferences) are preceded by a while the unmarked items are already read.

RSS remembers those headlines and won't show them again. It also keeps a list of outdated news so that you will be presented with up to date headlines only when you start Universal Ticker the next time.

## Channels

Channel Preferences

Clicking on + will add a new unnamed channel and open the channel info dialog. Just put the URL of the channel's RSS feed in the edit field and click OK. RSS will contact the site immediately and update the channel's name and description.

You may also add a new channel by dragging a link to the channel list.

To view info on a channel or change a feed's URL, select the channel and click edit.

## Query Interval

Query Preferences

The first slider determines the interval in which channels are queried for fresh news items.

Use the second slider to change the time interval after which a news items should be removed from the ticker.

## Display

Display Preferences

Change the minimum time between the display of two news items here.

The following settings affect the appearance of a news item. You can see a preview at the bottom of the window.