Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:47:16 -0500 From: Benjamin Lewis <blewis@vet.purdue.edu> To: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emu & Netscape Message-ID: <199609221747.MAA21170@ylana.vet.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Sep 1996 11:54:36 -0400." <Pine.BSF.3.94.960922115239.13774A-100000@scooter.quickweb.com>
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Mark wrote: > Shit.. I have this *exact* setup, exept I'm using the final release of > 3.0, not beta 7. Out of curiosity, what X server do you run? > > All I get for a java app is the empty "grey rectangle" where it should be > -- but it never appears. Rather annoying. Something that just bit me after an X server upgrade was the X fonts. Make sure that every directory in your FontPath exists, and has actual fonts in it. Then, enter each directory and type "mkfontdir". My problem was that I didn't install the 100dpi fonts, but the upgrade created a directory for them anyway, and an entry in XF86Config. "mkfontdir" in that directory had no effect (no fonts -> no fonts.dir), and Java seems to like having "fonts.dir" files around. You'll probably want to restart the X server after either paring down XF86Config or running mkfontdir, just to make sure everything is re-initialized. Of course, this assumes that you are using XFree86. I'd imagine the X-Inside server would experience similar difficulties, but I don't know which files you'd have to modify. Something else to watch out for: If you've ever installed the Netscape.ad file into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, you'll need to either install the newest version or just remove it (recommended). I think the symptom of this problem is that Netscape won't start at all, so it's probably no help to you now. Just watch out in the future, since it has bitten me a few times. Netscape has worked well for me on both a 2.1 and a 2.2-current system. I tend to grab the newest version as soon as I see a cvs commit log for ports/www/netscape3, and the only troubles I've encountered were the X fonts and playing about with the about:image-cache URL a bit too much. Java & "View Source" work fine for me, and crashes are very rare. -Ben -- Benjamin Lewis - blewis@vet.purdue.edu
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