Re: Galeon, gecko, etc. (was Re: netscape in bw)
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1000, John Griffiths wrote: if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse panes are v. cool IMHO http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ I would have to second the idea of Skipstone. I discovered it about a week ago and am delighted! It has everything I was hoping for in Mozilla: light, fast, plus it doesn't need any Gnome or KDE components. Check it out! -Bryan
Re: netscape in bw
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote: Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. -- cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de] only 16 or 32? what about 24? i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black and white. -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825
Re: netscape in bw
Rino Mardo wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote: Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. -- cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de] only 16 or 32? what about 24? i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black and white. Yes :-(. Strange how you can go down or up to fix the problem eh? jt
Re: netscape in bw
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 11:01:41AM +0400, Rino Mardo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 09:03:13PM +0200 or thereabouts, Veit Waltemath wrote: Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. -- cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de] only 16 or 32? what about 24? i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black and white. Netscape displays BW icons at 24 bpp. It's a bug. Set your X session to *either* 16 or 32 bpp to get colored icons. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpGs7VYwX6wS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: netscape in bw
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:13:00AM -0700 or thereabouts, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: only 16 or 32? what about 24? i'm running at 24bpp and it still is in black and white. Netscape displays BW icons at 24 bpp. It's a bug. Set your X session to *either* 16 or 32 bpp to get colored icons. GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 hmm, thanks for the inputs. i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it because of this bug. anyone who is still having problems with netscape should switch to either Galeon instead. just my 2cents. btw, i noticed my pgp is still flakey. still under construction. -- Who's watching the watchmen? ICQ: 15096825
Re: netscape in bw
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: hmm, thanks for the inputs. i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it because of this bug. anyone who is still having problems with netscape should switch to either Galeon instead. just my 2cents. What is galeon? A browser? I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but should support mpeg plugins. Something light, for a kiosk. Thanks
Re: netscape in bw
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:48:02AM -0500 or thereabouts, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Rino Mardo wrote: hmm, thanks for the inputs. i'm using Galeon now or was forced to use it because of this bug. anyone who is still having problems with netscape should switch to either Galeon instead. just my 2cents. What is galeon? A browser? I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but should support mpeg plugins. Something light, for a kiosk. Thanks yes it's a lightweight browser but i'm not sure if it has mpeg support. there is also mozilla aka. netscape 6 if i'm not mistaken. -- Who's watching the watchmen? Key fingerprint = E619 726E 3815 7A48 EAC7 E49F DF93 4E33 B069 0883
Re: netscape in bw
switch to either Galeon instead. just my 2cents. What is galeon? A browser? I am looking for a www browser, graphical, no java, but should support mpeg plugins. Something light, for a kiosk. Thanks yes it's a lightweight browser but i'm not sure if it has mpeg support. there is also mozilla aka. netscape 6 if i'm not mistaken. Actually, the galeon browser utilizes the Mozilla HTML rendering engine (gecko) to display sites, so if you want to get galeon running, you'll not get very far without having a current release of Mozilla installed (galeon in version 0.7.7 needs the latest M18 release to be picked up at www.mozilla.org) :) Thus, galeon *really* is a light browser system, but I *think* it should work well with the plug-ins installed in Mozilla (which works fine here with Netscape 4.x- plugs, like flashplayer, for example). So all you probably need to do is to find yourself a good mpeg-plugin. :)) Tchau, Kris -- Kristian A. Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Galeon, gecko, etc. (was Re: netscape in bw)
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Kristian Rink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is galeon? A browser? ... Actually, the galeon browser utilizes the Mozilla HTML rendering engine (gecko) to display sites, so if you want to get galeon running, you'll not get very far without having a current release of Mozilla installed (galeon in version 0.7.7 needs the latest M18 release to be picked up at www.mozilla.org) :) Thus, galeon *really* is a light browser system, but I *think* it should work well with the plug-ins installed in Mozilla (which works fine here with Netscape 4.x- plugs, like flashplayer, for example). So all you probably need to do is to find yourself a good mpeg-plugin. :)) There's been some discussion of this on the Galeon user list. AFAIU, Plug-in support is *not* part of Gecko, but a seperate issue. It's not fully (or even partially?) implemented in Galeon yet. Galeon sucks in different ways than other browsers. I happen to be pretty happy with the rendering quality of Netscape 4.x, though stability and memleaks suck. Mozilla just plain doesn't do it. Konqueror would be good stripped of a few KDE issues, such as the floating title bar. Actually, last I tried it, it just plain didn't work on one of my systems. I run an older PII-180/96M at home. Galeon works, but it's not as lightweight as some would have you believe, and stability varies greatly. I'm finding text-mode browsers more and more attractive as time goes by. Primary limitation with them is the ability to spawn new windows easily. w3m is my preferred choice. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgprLOdUepK1k.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Galeon, gecko, etc. (was Re: netscape in bw)
At 02:31 PM 10/17/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:35:42PM +0200, Kristian Rink ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What is galeon? A browser? ... if its a light gecko based browser your after i'd recommend checking out skipstone.. tabbed mulitple browse panes are v. cool IMHO http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/ i am in no way affiliated with skipstone.. i just think its easier to get going than galeon and does a lot of what i want.
Re: Galeon, gecko, etc. (was Re: netscape in bw)
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:31:48PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: I run an older PII-180/96M at home. Galeon works, but it's not as lightweight as some would have you believe, and stability varies greatly. I'm finding text-mode browsers more and more attractive as time goes by. Primary limitation with them is the ability to spawn new windows easily. w3m is my preferred choice. I like w3m, but am using links as my main browser now. Can spawn new windows easily, background d/l'ding, good frames support, Give it a try: http://links.browser.org
netscape in bw
I just installed netscape on woody (apt-get install netscape): $ dpkg --get-selections | grep netscape netscape netscape-base-4 netscape-base-475 netscape-jave-475 It works ok, but the icons on the buttons are in 1-bit color. I am running X in 24bpp mode. Any ideas? -- Pat Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] If puns were deli meat, this would be the wurst.
Re: netscape in bw
Change to 16 or 32bpp. This is an know behaviour from Netscape. -- cu Veit [EMAIL PROTECTED] [de]
