From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 19:01:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25912 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25904 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id MAA12628; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:01:37 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19970913120136.44849@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 12:01:36 +1000 From: David Dawes To: Nate Williams Cc: Terry Lambert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape annoying dialog boxes References: <199709122109.PAA12204@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709122119.OAA25910@usr08.primenet.com> <19970913093035.50156@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> <199709130101.TAA13481@rocky.mt.sri.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199709130101.TAA13481@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 07:01:59PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Sep 12, 1997 at 07:01:59PM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: >> >Ugh. The only thing I can suggest is asking Brian exactly what it was >> >in his .Xdefaults, and see if you have the same thing. I can't believe >> >the person who did the FreeBSD port had the problem on his machine; a >> >port done for love always has fewer problems than one done for money. >> >> Did you re-run xrdb after editing your .Xdefaults. > >Actually, I rebooted. But, upon reflection (too many machines, too >little time), the machine I rebooted still has netscape 3 on it, and the >machine that has netscape 4 on it didn't get rebooted. So, I did an >xrdb -query, and sure enough I have some leftovers from my .Xdefaults. That most likely explains it. >I re-ran xrdb, but unfortunately I don't have time to test it since it's >Friday night and the box that can run it is at work. My box at home >doesn't have the 'umph' to run V4, so it still runs V4. > >In short, I *suspect* that things should be working fine if: >1) It is Netscape 4 for FreeBSD >2) There is no trace of any kill/insert-selection crud in any > application defaults and/or .Xdefaults file. > >But, if you're running netscape 3, you'll get annoying messages. :( I've never had those messages with netscape 3 (or any version of netscape I've ever used on various platforms). I was using the BSDI netscape 3 binary at home with FreeBSD 2.2.2 until very recently when I switched to 4. David