RSS Feeds

A desktop widget that displays the most recent entries from RSS and Atom feeds of your choice. View updates from up to five news sites, blogs, or project releases. Feeds automatically update and links will open in your default web browser.

Plugin

Field	Value
ID	pmason314/rss-feeds
Entries	Desktop widget: feeds

Requirements

• xdg-open on PATH, used only to open an entry's link in your default web browser. Usually pre-installed and on PATH on most Linux distributions.

Usage

1. Enable RSS Feeds in Noctalia Settings → Plugins.
2. In the plugin settings, enter one or more URLs under Feed 1 URL … Feed 5 URL. Optionally give each feed a cleaner heading with the matching Feed N title (optional) field.
3. Add the feeds desktop widget to your desktop via Noctalia Settings → Desktop → Widgets. Enable Desktop Widgets and click Toggle Editor, then add and place the RSS Feeds widget where you want.
4. The widget lists the most recent entries from each feed you configured. Click any entry to open its link in your default browser.

The widget re-fetches its feeds automatically on the Refresh interval (minutes) setting (every 30 minutes by default). A feed that fails to load keeps showing its last good entries and retries on an exponential back-off.

Force a refresh

To re-fetch every configured feed immediately:

noctalia msg plugin pmason314/rss-feeds:feeds all refresh

Settings

Setting	Type	Default	Description
feed_1	string	""	URL of the feed shown first (feed slot 1). Leave blank to skip this slot.
title_1	string	""	Optional heading for feed slot 1. If blank, the feed's own <title> is used, then its URL.
feed_2	string	""	URL of the feed shown second (feed slot 2). Leave blank to skip.
title_2	string	""	Optional heading for feed slot 2.
feed_3	string	""	URL of the feed shown third (feed slot 3). Leave blank to skip.
title_3	string	""	Optional heading for feed slot 3.
feed_4	string	""	URL of the feed shown fourth (feed slot 4). Leave blank to skip.
title_4	string	""	Optional heading for feed slot 4.
feed_5	string	""	URL of the feed shown fifth (feed slot 5). Leave blank to skip.
title_5	string	""	Optional heading for feed slot 5.
items_per_feed	int	5	Number of most-recent entries to show per feed, from 1 to 15.
refresh_minutes	int	30	How often to re-fetch all feeds, in minutes, from 5 to 1440.

Notes

• Reads RSS 2.0 (<item>) and Atom (<entry>) feeds. Entries must have a title and http(s) link to be retrieved.
• Everything runs on your machine. The plugin fetches only the feeds you list and does not record or send any telemetry.
• xdg-open is started only when you click an entry.