Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine
Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 29 January 2009 22:02:35 Tore Lund wrote: Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. What exactly did you do to import those fonts? You should put them in a separate directory under /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts, create fonts.scale and fonts.dir in that directory using mkfontscale and mkfontdir, then run fc-cache -f -v and (for completeness) add a FontPath entry to your xorg.conf. Alternatively, you can install the x11-fonts/webfonts port, which contains the most commonly used fonts. I have webfonts. In addition, I copied my Windows fonts to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts, thinking that might have something to do with it. (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) This formulation is awkward. I meant to say that I wanted flash9 to work with native FreeBSD firefox3. Try to get it to work under linux-firefox first. Thanks for your advice, Tijl. I had already done these things, but the problem, I believe, is that linux firefox3 is a beta. As it happens, I now find that native firefox2 (2.0.0.20) works with my present setup, so I will simply use that version for the time being. I suppose linux firefox2 might also work, but there is no need for me to try it since I now have native firefox2, with flash9, with sound. -- Tore ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine
On Thursday 29 January 2009 22:02:35 Tore Lund wrote: Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. What exactly did you do to import those fonts? You should put them in a separate directory under /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts, create fonts.scale and fonts.dir in that directory using mkfontscale and mkfontdir, then run fc-cache -f -v and (for completeness) add a FontPath entry to your xorg.conf. Alternatively, you can install the x11-fonts/webfonts port, which contains the most commonly used fonts. (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) Try to get it to work under linux-firefox first. - Remove all linux-*, linux_base-* and nspluginwrapper packages you've currently installed. - Remove any stale npwrapper plugins from the following directories and their subdirectories: ~/.mozilla/plugins /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins /usr/local/lib/npapi /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins - Check that you have these settings in each file: * /etc/make.conf: OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 * /etc/sysctl.conf: compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 * /etc/rc.conf: linux_enable=YES * /etc/fstab: linprocfs /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 - Reboot or alternatively you can run these commands as root: sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16 mount /compat/linux/proc - Install www/linux-firefox and www/linux-flashplugin9. - Check if the plugin works in linux-firefox. - Install www/nspluginwrapper. - Run these commands as root: nspluginwrapper -v -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so ln -sf /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so /usr/local/lib/npapi/symlinks/firefox/ - Check if the plugin works in native firefox. This should get the plugin working, but it'll still crash or freeze the browser sometimes. You can kill the plugin with killall npviewer.bin. You also might want to install a plugin like www/xpi-flashblock. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Excessive letter-spacing in firefox3 under wine
Tore Lund wrote: Subject line says it all - large gaps between all letters. Here is a screenshot: http://softblur.com/misc/spacing.jpg. I suppose there are others who run firefox3 under wine on 7.1-RELEASE with no problems, so can anyone think of what's wrong? I have imported fonts from my Windows 2000 installation, and I am using the same profile that works well with native FreeBSD firefox and firefox on Windows 2000. I believe this did not happen with firefox2. Grateful for any hint. (Actually, I only use wine in order to get flash9, so if anyone could help me solve this problem instead, that's even better. I have tried the available recipes with no success - my firefox3 just freezes.) The rendering stuff is due to the font wine/firefox is using. I do have ff3 running with similar issues, but I'm sure there's some sort of documentation available to fix it. You're going to want an anti-aliased font, and probably an MS one for greatest compatibility. I've also got flash 10 installed on it and the video is terrible. Hopefully flash 9 works better for you. -- Adam Vandemore Systems Administrator IMED Mobility (605) 498-1610 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
